This report summarizes UN-HABITAT’s programme aimed at building capacities at local and national levels to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries through slum upgrading policy development and
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
This symposium report focuses on mitigation strategies for tsunami disasters, tsunami warning systems and historical and pre-historical tsunamis associated with earthquakes in the Indian Ocean. The results of the project, upon which this symposium was
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention
European Commission
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
This study documents the use of flood-hazard mapping as a way of helping communities to devise plans that would help them develop warning and response systems. It allows communities to prepare a management plan that will boost their resilience to mitigate
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
This document presents how Save the Children intervened in the areas of Bangladesh affected by cyclone Sidr in 2005, and helped people to recover from damages and losses. Disaster preparedness and risk reduction had been a major factor in preventing the
This brochure, while providing an overview of the global context, seeks to explain what disaster risk reduction means for the International Federation and to set out a framework to help the 185 member National societies to make communities safer and more
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
This handbook is designed to give governments and humanitarian workers the tools that they need to address the Education for All and UN Millennium Development Goals. It is the first step toward ensuring that education initiatives in emergency situations
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
This book, consisting of two parts, the theory of Total Disaster Risk Management (TDRM) and good practices for disaster risk management, was compiled for the purpose of promoting TDRM as a comprehensive approach to disaster risk reduction worldwide.
This report details what needs to be done to prevent further deaths following the Pakistan earthquake and to enable survivors to rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
