Global Disaster Preparedness Center
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Report
Review of current funding mechanisms for disaster preparedness in Nepal and analysis of opportunities for improved risk financing in the future. Emergency preparedness financing in Nepal: desk review, September 2011 http://www.devinit.org/wp-content/...
Report
A feasibility study investigating the potential for agricultural insurance to be used as a financial risk transfer tool for small and marginal farmers in Nepal. The study outlines the core institutional, financial, and technical challenges to the int...
Report, Research
This peer-reviewed article, published in the Journal of Earth Science and Climate Change (2013), presents a community-level participatory flood vulnerability assessment conducted in the West Rapti River Basin in the Mid-Western Terai region of Nepal ...
The Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE) program is a community-based disaster response initiative developed under the Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER), a regional training program initiated by USAID’s Office of Fo...
Recognizing the need for cross-border collaboration for the benefit of the Rhine and of all waters running into the Rhine, the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) is comprised of nine states and regions in the Rhine waters...
Report
The scoping assessment aims to: review existing policies, institutional mechanisms, mandates and specific programs for, and the state of knowledge and initiatives toward adaptation in the Philippines; define a process for the development of an instit...
Report
The NDRRMP sets down the expected outcomes, outputs, key activities, indicators, lead agencies, implementing partners and timelines under each of the four distinct yet mutually reinforcing thematic areas, namely, (1) Disaster Prevention and Mitigatio...
The ProVention Consortium in its Community Risk Assessment Toolkit has collected and analysed 35 CRA case studies from Asia, Latin America, Africa and Small Island Developing States. Key findings were: Partnerships between NGOs and local government e...
In 2003, a thorough and well-designed assessment was carried out in Sinazongwe, a district in southern Zambia. The CRA team was composed of staff from the regional IFRC delegation, the Zambian Red Cross Society (ZRCS) and district and local governmen...