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This paper gives an introduction to the GFDRR South-South Cooperation Program which aims to facilitate collaboration among low- and middle-income countries to mainstream disaster risk reduction and recovery, including climate change adaptation, into

This document provides practitioners solution-oriented theoretical and engineering bases that can serve for planning and implementing flood management within the framework of integrated river basin management at all levels -- from nations to localities.

Global facility for disaster reduction and recovery annual report 2008:

This report addresses the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)'s activities in mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in

Oxfam briefing note:

This note calls on the Government of Bangladesh and the international community to scale up recovery and rehabilitation efforts to meet the cyclone survivors’ urgent need for housing and livelihoods, further to cyclone Sidr.

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This document presents the results of OCHA's 2008 activities in its mission of mobilizing and coordinating effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors in order to: promote preparedness and prevention

In Portuguese

O Plano Director para Prevenção e Mitigação de Calamidades estabelece estratégias de intervenção estrutural e não estrutural com vista a redução da vulnerabilidade às calamidades e criação de condições de prontidão e resposta em casos de

COBRA 2008 - the construction and building research conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors:

This study explores women’s status in post disaster situations and examines the concept of empowerment in response to the need to include

This report summarizes UN-HABITAT’s programme aimed at building capacities at local and national levels to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries through slum upgrading policy development and