International Recovery Platform

Enhancing the resilience of vulnerable communities:

This paper presents FAO's approach to disaster risk management, which aims to reduce the vulnerability of people before, during and after disasters through risk assessment, risk reduction (preparedness

This booklet provides some guidelines in 'natural' disaster management in order to achieve the highest possible level of effectiveness in preparedness, response and rehabilitation from disasters such as storms, floods, landslides, storm surges, salinity

This annually released booklet aims at further promoting disaster risk reduction activities by demonstrating positive examples collected from different countries.