These guidelines provide practical guidance and effective tools for humanitarians and communities affected by armed conflict, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for
This study looks at whether interventions to improve building practices, combined with community engagement, have resulted in safer schools and communities in view of the effects of the earthquake on Nepal’s educational infrastructure.
This paper is part of a series highlighting the World Bank's achievements in disaster risk management initiatives. It presents the analytical support provided by the World Bank in close collaboration with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) on the basis of the Government-led Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) following the devastating 2009 typhoons, to formulate a disaster risk financing strategy to reduce the fiscal burden arising from the recurring costs of disasters in the Philippines.
World Bank, the
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
An official document formally adopted by UN Member States as the outcome of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, in which countries recognize the need to support and invest in these nations so they can achieve sustainable
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)
One year on from Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda), this report is based on consultations with 162 children who survived the storm, ages 6 to 17 years.
En esta edición le invitamos a conocer el Centro de Referencia en Costa Rica de la Federación Internacional de la Cruz Roja y su experiencia con el uso de la herramienta "Escuela Protegida". Encuentre además publicaciones recientes sobre la
Regional Disaster Information Center Latin America and the Caribbean
This action plan gives an overview of the situation at the national, international and bilateral levels, few days after the category 5 Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) made a direct hit on the Philippines, devastating areas in 36 provinces.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
This book explains key lessons learned from diverse disaster situations and analyzes them within the framework of governance, education, and technology, providing a framework for disaster recovery as a development opportunity. In post-disaster situations
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 98, October 2013:
This issue builds on the experience of the 2011 earthquake in Sikkim. It focuses primarily on the recovery and rehabilitation of the Indian state of Sikkim following the 18 September 2011 earthquake
