Gender

This report aims to scale-up women’s participation in recovery and reconstruction of Haiti and asserts that gender equality principles must guide all aspects of disaster mitigation, response and reconstruction. It is a response to Haiti’s National Plan of Action, the blueprint guiding reconstruction efforts and resource allocation, based on a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), resulting from a two month process led by the Government of Haiti and involving more than 250 people from the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Union and the Inter-American Development Bank, but failing to address gender dimensions of Haiti’s proposed strategies for reconstructing macroeconomic, social, environmental policies, as well as infrastructure and governance.

Synthesis of Resident Coordinator annual reports 2008:

This annual synthesis documents the work of the UN development system in countries in support of national development strategies and priorities, such as: (i) supporting disaster risk reduction; (ii)

The project “Making Aceh Safer Through Disaster Risk Reduction In Development (DRR-A)” is designed to make DRR a normal part of the development process established in core functions of Aceh’s local government and their public and private partners.

This assessment provides estimates of the impacts of floods and landslides caused by heavy rain in El Salvador in 2009, and the estimated costs of reconstruction and recovery.

This annual report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on data provided by a large number of international organizations within and outside the UN system. The aggregate figures in the report provide an overview of

This document captures good practices from the Indonesian Red Cross (Palang Merah Indonesia/PMI) risk reduction projects.

It was compiled and shared with the national disaster response agency (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana/BNPB) as PMI’s

COBRA 2008 - the construction and building research conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors:

This study explores women’s status in post disaster situations and examines the concept of empowerment in response to the need to include

This second Annual Report of UNDP-BCPR, Outlook 2007, provides an overview of how UNDP has continued to increase its efforts to deliver tangible results in preventing crisis and promoting recovery.

@local.glob, issue no. 3 – year 2006:

The document assists in facilitating and supporting efforts by governments, local authorities, international organizations, and multilateral financial and trade institutions to invest in reducing disaster risk and to

This publication is the first module of the ‘Resource Manual on Flash Flood Risk Management’ prepared under the project ‘Capacity Building for Flash Flood Risk Management and Sustainable Development in the Himalayas&rsquo.

Chapter 1 describes the hazard