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Communicating with People with Disability: National Guidelines for Emergency Managers

This handbook, part of the Australian Disaster Resilience Handbook Collection published by the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, provides practical guidance for emergency managers on communicating effectively with people with disabilities across all phases of disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. Grounded in Australia’s National Disability Strategy and National Strategy for Disaster Resilience, it outlines […]

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Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Management: Voices from the field & good practices

This publication would like to contribute with advocating for a more inclusive DRR where persons with disabilities are active participants and not overlooked in relief and response actions. The practices and experiences presented here are challenging the stereotype of persons with disabilities as helpless victims, and instead showing them as effective agents in changing this

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A Guide for Including People with Disabilities in Disaster Preparedness Planning

This guide, written for municipal and regional planners, reflects information,concerns and recommendations that emerged at the daylong forum on December 6, 2005, on “Lessons Learned” from recent large-scale disasters that affected states along the Gulf Coast. This guide is primarily intended to assist people involved in preparedness planning at the municipal and regional levels. It

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Cities and Flooding

 A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st  Century provides forward-looking operational assistance to policy makers and technical specialists in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world on how best to manage the risk of floods. It takes a strategic approach, in which appropriate risk management measures are assessed,

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A Workbook on Planning for Urban Resilience in the Face of Disasters

This Workbook offers a step-by-step guide for city officials in proactively planning for natural disasters and climate change impacts. It is based on learning from three cities in Vietnam – Ha Noi, Can Tho, and Dong Hoi – that developed Local Resilience Action Plans (LRAPs) containing a set of prioritized actions, related to both infrastructure

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Fire Safety for Wheelchair Users at Work and at Home

By understanding their special evacuation needs, people with mobility impairments and first responders can improve their chances of evacuating their workplace or home safely. This brochure will emphasize the evacuation protocol for wheelchair users from these two areas.  United Spinal Association. Online version of guide http://www.unitedspinal.org/pdf/WheelchairFireSafety.pdf

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Urban risk assessments: Understanding disaster and climate risk in cities

Urban Risk Assessments: Understanding Disaster and Climate Risk in Cities (World Bank, 2012) provides a practical framework for analyzing and managing disaster and climate risks in urban areas. Designed for city officials, urban planners, and development practitioners, the resource introduces the Urban Risk Assessment (URA) methodology, which integrates three core pillars—hazard impact, institutional capacity, and

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Guidance note on recovery: pre-disaster recovery planning

Pre-disaster recovery planning (PDRP) is the pro-active process of anticipating future recovery issues, developing a scenario-based recovery plan, and building the capacity to improve recovery outcomes – all before a disaster happens. Strong evidence, and common sense, indicates that much can be done before a disaster to alleviate recovery planning demands after the disaster. The purpose of this guidance

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Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing after Disasters

Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing after Natural Disasters, published by the World Bank in 2010, is a practical reference for governments, policy makers, NGOs, and project managers responsible for rebuilding housing and communities after earthquakes, floods, storms, and other natural disasters. Rather than prescribing a single approach, it equips decision-makers to design

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