Global Disaster Preparedness Center
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Report
![National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan (NDRRMP) 2011‐2018](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
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...
Report
![San Francisco 5 – Year Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (MDRRM) Plan (2011-2015)](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
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...
![Community Risk Assessment Toolkit](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
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...
![Zambian Red Cross Society, Vulnerability Capacity Assessment: Sinazongwe District](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
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...
Case Study
![El Salvador, Program for Prevention and Mitigation of Flood Disasters in the Lower Lempa River Basin](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
El Salvador, Program for Prevention and Mitigation of Flood Disasters in the Lower Lempa River Basin
The Lower Lempa River Basin in El Salvador is unique in social terms and in the type of flood hazard it faces. During the civil war, this zone was depopulated. After the war, former combatants from both sides were offered land there for resettlement....
![Rising from the Ashes: Development Strategies in Times of Disaster](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Drawing on case histories of emergency relief programs that have successfully promoted development, Anderson and Woodrow offer guidelines for fashioning assistance programs designed to counter the effects of both natural and human-caused disasters. A...
Guidance material
![Social Vulnerability, Sustainable Livelihoods and Disasters](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The need to analyse and prepare for peoples’ vulnerability to natural hazards could be rooted in the sustainable livelihoods (SL) approach, and in development work which aims to reduce the elements of vulnerability that are a result of poverty....
![Whose reality counts? Putting the first last](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
In this sequel to Rural Development: Putting the last first Robert Chambers argues that central issues in development have been overlooked, and that many past errors have flowed from domination by those with power. Through analysing experience –...
Report
![](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/guidelines_on_safer_school_construction_arabic_version.png)
Range of materials developed by the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET) on hosital and health facility disaster saftey, including preparedness and risk reduction measures, safe construction practices, and outreach and awarenes...