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This year’s annual report features a detailed analysis of the cumulative impact and results GFDRR has achieved over the five-year period since its inception in 2006. Based on advice received from its Consultative Group (CG) over the last year, the

This study focuses on the 2006 landslide tragedy in the Philippines, where an entire community, including its people, its productive assets, and its socio-cultural resources, was totally buried. It reports on the various levels of recovery that have been achieved among the provision of community services and facilities such as health, education, recreation, infrastructure, livelihood opportunities and psychosocial services; and identifies the limitations of the principle of "build back better" as well as those areas of concern in which the principle can best be applied.

This report provides insights and recommendations for enhancing tsunami evacuation procedures based on observations and interviews conducted in tsunami-affected areas following the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami of March 11th, 2011.

本市において発生した被害や教訓をふまえ、単なる原状復旧にとどまらず、市の発展や将来を見据えた新たなまちづくりを推進することにより、早期の復旧と市民が家族と地域とのつながりの中で「住んでいてよかった」と日常生活に喜びを感じられる地域づくり、災害に強いまちづくりを実現していくため、「小美玉市震災復興計画」を策定するものです。

This article briefly reviews the causes and impacts of the massive eastern Japan earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011, and comments on the response measures taken by Japan to cope with this devastating disaster.

These guidelines help to describe the main elements of a recovery programming approach required to deliver high-quality, timely and accountable humanitarian assistance.

This review analyses some of the major events and trends related to natural disasters and humanitarian disaster response and looks at the experience of developed countries with natural disasters in 2011.

This paper explains the parametric insurance system of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) in the event of a hurricane or an earthquake.