International Recovery Platform

This study documents the use of flood-hazard mapping as a way of helping communities to devise plans that would help them develop warning and response systems. It allows communities to prepare a management plan that will boost their resilience to mitigate

This document presents how Save the Children intervened in the areas of Bangladesh affected by cyclone Sidr in 2005, and helped people to recover from damages and losses. Disaster preparedness and risk reduction had been a major factor in preventing the

This brochure, while providing an overview of the global context, seeks to explain what disaster risk reduction means for the International Federation and to set out a framework to help the 185 member National societies to make communities safer and more