Case Study

In the month of August 2017, a massive landslide occurred near the village of Kotrupi. NIDM endevours to clutch the lessons of the event in order to strengthen our future strategies for landslides risks reduction and resilience.

The flood of 2014 in the Kashmir Valley was the worst flood in the last hundred years. This document has also suggested long-term measures that should be taken for building resilience.

This paper examines flood disaster response and recovery in Nigeria using the case study of July 2018 Jibia Flood disaster in Katsina State.

This study examined whether community activities with the direct participation by disaster survivors enhance DRR activities, or external stakeholders strengthen those activities.

The post-tsunami housing reconstruction in Kalutara District, Sri Lanka, led by the Belgian Red Cross, focused on building houses and essential infrastructure, empowering beneficiaries through an owner-driven approach.

The Ketsana Rehabilitation Programme sought to “enable urban poor communities seriously affected by Typhoon Ketsana to recover from their loss and strengthen their capacities to sustain their lives and livelihoods.”

This paper, a review of an Internews humanitarian-information radio program launched in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake that devastated the country.

This case study is about how a small city known largely as a tourist attraction coped with the devastating flash floods caused by a sudden cloudburst.

This case study presents how the Municipality of Patong converted the tragedy into an opportunity and stood up to the challenges posed by the Indian Ocean Tsunami event in clearing the destruction and re-launching itself in less than two years.

IDMC's report explores the challenges in providing sustainable housing assistance to informal urban settlers displaced by disasters. It looks at nine case studies from Asia, America and Europe.