Community based disaster risk reduction study – Latin America and the Caribbean

The San Francisco Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan serves as a guide in the implementation of proactive disaster risk reduction programs that emphasize the five pillars of: 1) Governance by making disaster risk reduction a priori...

Organized communities living and working in hazard prone settlements bring perspectives and priorities to policy discussions that are distinct from the rest of civil society. This report documents a number of case studies where grassroots women’s o...

As successive Human Development Reports (HDRs) have shown, most people in most countries have been doing steadily better in human development. Advances in technology, education and incomes hold ever-greater promise for longer, healthier, more secure ...