All Recovery Resources

Disaster risk management (DRM) updates from the World Bank and GFDRR:

This first edition of the DRM quarterly is intended to bring the latest knowledge, experiences, and tools to people around the world dedicated to build a more resilient world. It

This year’s annual report features a detailed analysis of the cumulative impact and results GFDRR has achieved over the five-year period since its inception in 2006. Based on advice received from its Consultative Group (CG) over the last year, the

This study focuses on the 2006 landslide tragedy in the Philippines, where an entire community, including its people, its productive assets, and its socio-cultural resources, was totally buried. It reports on the various levels of recovery that have been achieved among the provision of community services and facilities such as health, education, recreation, infrastructure, livelihood opportunities and psychosocial services; and identifies the limitations of the principle of "build back better" as well as those areas of concern in which the principle can best be applied.

This report provides insights and recommendations for enhancing tsunami evacuation procedures based on observations and interviews conducted in tsunami-affected areas following the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami of March 11th, 2011.

This review analyses some of the major events and trends related to natural disasters and humanitarian disaster response and looks at the experience of developed countries with natural disasters in 2011.

This paper explains the parametric insurance system of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) in the event of a hurricane or an earthquake.

This paper explains the excess rainfall parametric insurance product of the CCRIF and Swiss Re Excess Rainfall, which helps to mitigate the short-term cash flow problems small developing economies suffer after major natural disasters.

This document is the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Queensland floods of 2010/2011, established following the flooding of historic proportions in Queensland in December 2010, stretching into January 2011. It embodies both likelihood of

This report examines Haiti’s legal framework for facilitating and regulating international disaster assistance in the light of the IDRL Guidelines and the experience with the international response to the 2010 earthquake. It sets out recommendations for

This research aims to develop a new model for disaster risk management funding in South Africa which included both disaster reduction and disaster relief and recovery components. It states that the current funding model for disaster risk reduction within