Inclusion

This report presents the findings from a statewide assessment of emergency preparedness programs and initiatives for racially and ethnically diverse communities in California. By using a multi-faceted research methodology, the report charts the current

Oxfam briefing note:

This note calls on the Government of Bangladesh and the international community to scale up recovery and rehabilitation efforts to meet the cyclone survivors’ urgent need for housing and livelihoods, further to cyclone Sidr.

Based

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 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

This document presents the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies plan for 2008-2009 to respond to the effects of disasters on a daily basis, in countries where the public infrastructures are weak or non-existent.

Under their humanitarian mandate

This report summarizes the progress made and the lives helped to be transformed as a result of the five-year response and recovery program. As this report documents, significant results have been achieved in many critical areas including child protection

The author presents the results of a study on the adjustment of two ethnic groups to the post-disaster resettlement program after the 1991 Mt Pinatubo volcano eruption in the Philippines.

The aim of the book is to raise the awareness of the donors and general public to the ongoing long-term effects of this disaster. This book of images from the Chernobyl zone shows the daily work of the Red Cross teams, as well as the daily reality for

Resolution of the 113th IPU Assembly (Geneva, 19 October 2005)

This resolution was adopted by 550 parliamentarians from 130 countries at the 113th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), held in Geneva from 17 to 19 October 2005, to consider the