IRP Herald Volume 29 serves as the knowledge report for the World Bosai Forum 2019, the Fourth National Conference on Promoting Disaster Risk Reduction (Japan), and the Hyogo Earthquake Memorial Symposium.
This is the User Guide showing the necessary steps to deploy the post-flood study in the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC). This document is not meant to be used in the field directly with communities or to provide field workers with
The work of Partners for Resilience (PfR) centres on making people, communities and systems better prepared to withstand catastrophic events, and enabling them to bounce back more quickly and emerge stronger from shocks and stresses. PfR promotes four
This article aims to develop an in-depth perspective on disaster management of natural and man-made disasters so as to minimize the loss accountability after occurrence of a disaster. Disaster management aims at managing the disaster in an efficacious way
Disasters have tragic consequences, and people with the least resources at hand to rebuild their lives are often the worst affected. The traditional response to disasters is to provide immediate relief, without considering how the process of rebuilding
This policy brief provides an analysis of the impacts and review of the disaster response to draw lessons and policy implications for post-disaster institutional development.
This report looks at the patterns, trends and impacts of internal displacement eight months after the passage of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique between the 4th and the 15th of March, from the initial emergency response phase to a longer-term recovery phase.
Humanitarian needs continue to grow with nearly 132 million people in need of assistance in 2018, due to conflict, persecution, and natural disasters. The average humanitarian crisis now lasts more than nine years, and periods of forced displacement more
Build Change, with partners Philippine Red Cross, conducted a post-earthquake reconnaissance survey in Itbayat, Batanes following the July 27, 2019 earthquakes.
This paper highlights how governments and other actors can prepare for the governance challenges of disaster response, recovery, and reconstruction. It identifies two sets of enabling factors need to be in place before disaster events occur to help avoid