The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-13 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.
National Disaster Management Office (Lao People's Democratic Republic)
The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-13 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.
This post-disaster needs assessment presents the damage caused by the 2012 floods in Cameroon and identifies and offers preliminary recommendations and short-and long-term recovery measures.
Cameroon - government
World Bank, the
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
The primary conviction of this report is driven by a concern that people’s exposure and vulnerability, experienced individually and collectively, continue to be twin challenges for the Asia-Pacific region.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Policy research working paper 6216, background paper to the 2014 world development report:
This paper investigates the link between development, economic growth, and the economic losses from natural disasters in a general analytical framework, with an
This report argues that the practice of disaster risk management (DRM) is a defining characteristic of resilient societies, and should therefore be integrated – or ‘mainstreamed’ – into all aspects of development.
World Bank, the
Japan - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
This document includes a set of 32 notes grouped into six thematic clusters: (i) structural measures; (ii) non-structural measures; (iii) emergency response; (iv) reconstruction planning; (v) hazard and risk information and decision making; and (vi) economics of disaster risk, risk management, and risk financing.
World Bank, the
Japan - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
This special section of the annual white paper on gender equality 2012 provides an analysis and proposal under the theme of disaster prevention and reconstruction from a gender equal society perspective.
The purpose of the Disaster Management Act of 2012 is to provide for the establishment of institutions for disaster risk management in Namibia; to provide for an integrated and coordinated disaster management approach that focuses on preventing or
To mark International day for Disaster Risk reduction (IDDR) 2012, Oxfam has published a new collection of programme insights papers bringing together experiences, lessons and good practice from Oxfam and its partners work in emergencies and on disaster
