This booklet describes Sendai City’s present state of recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami and the significant contribution made by citizens, throughout the world.
This document addresses disaster risk reduction in the context of the Typhoon Haiyan, presents lessons from the humanitarian response to the disaster and highlights the important coordination role of the Philippines government in it.
This briefing paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learned from relief responses to past earthquakes. The main intended audiences are operational decision-makers and relief programme managers working in the South Asia earthquake relief operation.