11 Sep 2014
A risk assessment is a process to identify potential hazards and analyze what could happen if a hazard occurs. This is different from a business impact analysis (BIA) as a BIA is the process for determining the potential impacts resulting from the in...
Tags: Guidance material, Business Preparedness
05 Dec 2024
Urban planning at the heart of increasingly severe East African flood impacts in a warming world 23 May, 2024 DARAJA / Resurgence mention on pp.18-19 of the Full Study. The 2024 long rains in East Africa were exceptionally heavy towards the end of Ma...
Tags: Guidance material, Report, Research, Anticipatory action, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Early Warning Systems, Flood, Hazard, Infrastructure and Services, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Preparedness
28 Jul 2020
This document outlines infection prevention precautions when managing patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infection requiring assessment or transportation by ambulance responders. This information sheet should be read in conjunction with th...
Tags: Guidance material, COVID-19 (Coronavirus)