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This viewpoint on Typhoon Haiyan aims to capture some of the priorities for aid decision makers as they struggle with the devastation in the Philippines, such as: to rebuild livelihoods and to pay attention to special vulnerable groups.

This issue focuses on the preparedness activities that took place against the backdrop of Cyclone Phailin.

This paper explores some of the issues highlighted by recent disaster responses in the Philippines, with a focus primarily on Tropical Storm Washi in 2011 and Typhoon Bopha in 2012. It assesses the gap between policy and practice and calls on local

This document discusses the importance of gender sensitivity in disaster risk reduction (DRR), and relates the history and experiences of the Japan Women's Network for Disaster Risk Reduction.

This document reports on the recovery efforts led by Save the Children in Japan. The report is comprised of four sections: (i) the first section of the report touches on their community grants initiative, their work with child-participation in disaster risk reduction, and their work to mitigate the effects on children of the Fukushima disaster; (ii) the second section contains success stories of their work in recovery; (iii) the third section outlines ideas for the future of their work in Japan; (iv) and section four explains the financial resources of the organization.

This manual is intended to provide methodological and practical guidance to ACF field workers on how to implement Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Assessment (PCVA) so as to design and initiate stand-alone or mainstreamed DRM actions at the

This framework explains the Disaster Risk Reduction for Food and Nutrition Security Framework Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) which has been undertaken with the goal of enhancing the resilience of livelihoods

This compendium presents the state-of-the-art approach to mobility and disaster to practitioners and policy-makers in the risk reduction and migration community. The analysis is based on IOM’s extensive achievements in the field: 257 disaster-related

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This study addresses the relationship between memory, morality and social inequality and discusses the implications for questions regarding vulnerability, resilience and adaptation. The study examines

This case study reflected on the situation of elderly victims and survivors of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake through the perspective of the disaster cycle.