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This guideline supports World Bank Task Team Leaders (TTLs) with the design and execution of assessments to determine disaster impacts and post-disaster needs for recovery, reconstruction and disaster risk reduction.

This document mainstreams the methodology for disaster damage and loss assessment (DaLA), providing material for training programs to build capacity for damage and loss assessments at national, regional and local levels as well as for critical sectors.

This document presents key findings from consultations with the children and youth undertook to hear their ideas and priorities for the country’s reconstruction as they are among the most vulnerable groups affected by the disaster, and as many of them have already mobilized to support their communities in the response and taken on strong leadership roles.

Practice briefing:

This briefing paper provides an overview of the disasters and climate change theme and summaries of the presentations made at a seminar bringing together academics, practitioners and policy-makers to explore how thinking on climate

...and urgent actions required in all disaster-prone countries to improve disaster-risk assessment, prevention and mitigation:

This resolution, adopted unanimously by the 122nd IPU Assembly in Bangkok, 1 April 2010, acknowledges that both disasters and

This publication, which highlights success stories and lessons learned, intends to raise awareness of the devastation that an environmental emergency can cause, and to promote advocacy and action in response, including the risk reduction perspective. As

This report evaluates the performance of the New Orleans hurricane protection system and studies the vulnerabilities posed to the city and the region by hurricanes. More specifically, the objectives of the study are defined as: (i) the design and status

This policy brief presents the Haiti earthquake as an opportunity to correct past mistakes and promote a more strategic and inclusive policy vision aiming to move the Haitian economy from recovery to a more sustainable economic growth and development path