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Editorial -
Voices & Ideas:
- Chosica: Prevention Bears Fruit
- Crisis or Mitigation?: The role of relationships between institutions and communities in disaster recovery assistance
- Contingency plans for coping with disasters: A need that cannot be postponed
- Agents of Change: The Role of Children and Youth in Disaster
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This document reports on experiences and lessons learned at the national and local level of the Andean and Central American countries surrounding concepts, policies, strategies and tools, capabilities and needs, networking, education, risk management and investment planning for development.
One of the main contributions of the document, which also incl…
Vacancy Notice number: ISDR/IC/23/2010
United Nations Core Values: Integrity • Professionalism • Respect for diversity
Background:
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to…
Good practices and lessons learned, a publication of the “Global network of NGOs” for disaster risk reduction.
This publication is a joint effort of the Global Network of NGOs for Disaster Risk Reduction, an emerging network of national and international NGOs aiming to reduce disaster risk worldwide. The idea of publishing a compilation of good practic…
This publication seeks to highlight initiatives that have successfully linked poverty reduction and disaster risk reduction in various parts of the world. It features several projects and initiatives that show how DRR can be integrated into poverty reduction (or vice-versa) to help reduce the vulnerability of the poor and protect their livelihoods and d…