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.
General Secretariat for Civil Protection of Greece
This book captures the measures undertaken and the systems established for disaster management in India. It also articulates the next steps required. It is intended to be used by disaster management practitioners to promote collaborative efforts to reduce
This PDNA takes stock of physical damage to property, infrastructure, and productive assets as well as to account for losses resulting from the disruption of economic flows brought on by the 2012 Tropical Cyclone Evan.
Fiji - governmentWorld Bank, theGlobal Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)European UnionSecretariat of the Pacific CommunityUnited Nations - Headquarters
This book offers an up-to-date resource covering both methodological and technical aspects of disaster mitigation, involving adequate risk assessment and the implementation of risk reduction strategies. It is based on Latin American experiences of
Investing in resilience - accelerating the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in the Americas:
A declaration in which the participants of the Regional platform for disaster risk reduction in the Americas acknowledge the work being developed
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the CaribbeanOrganization of American StatesChile - government
This report describes country’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, earthquake, storm, drought and wildfire, and presents governmental and institutional structures responsible for disaster management in Mongolia.
This paper presents New Zealand’s four-stage approach termed Comprehensive Emergency Management (CEM) that covers reduction, readiness, response and recovery. It also discusses key features of risk-based emergency management and outlines country’s
Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management
This case study presents emergency management practices in place for the city of Wellington, and discusses all hazards approach and different phases of the comprehensive emergency management concept.
Nepal’s national action plan on disaster management consists of four main plans on: disaster preparedness, disaster response, disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation action, and disaster mitigation. The plan is presented in the form of a matrix indicating priority item groups, activities, time schedule, and executing agencies.
This report is focused on the work carried out by two of Oxfam’s partner organisations – the Doaba Foundation and the Help Foundation – in Muzaffargarh and Rajanpur districts of Pakistan’s Punjab Province. Over 21,700 people residing in 60 villages of