The Resource Library contains a searchable inventory of documents related to hazards and disaster preparedness in communities around the globe. It serves as a repository of program documentation, policies, annual reports, lessons learned, guidance, and tools and methodologies that can help you design and learn about preparedness operations in any region. Use the search box and filters below to better find what you’re looking for.
This report published by the UNISDR gives an excellent analysis of economic lossess due to disasters. Between 1998 and 2017 climate-related and geophysical disasters killed 1.3 million people and left a further 4.4 billion injured, homeless, displace...
Report, Post-Disaster Recovery, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
The aim of this report is to raise the profile and provide a better understanding of the humanitarian shelter and settlements sector. This report is intended to be used by humanitarian policy makers, donors, governments, academics and senior managers...
The Urban Assessment Tools are the list of tools proposed/developed by Nepal Red Cross Society and British Red Cross Society Nepal for use in vulnerability and capacity assessment in Urban areas.
The purpose of these guidelines is to document the process and rationale the development and implementation of the Urban Assessment (UA); providing guidance on how to carry out urban disaster risk reduction / resilience assessments.
In Demak, Central Java, natural forces exacerbated by human activities have escalated coastal erosion to the point of damaging the ecological system and jeopardizing opportunities for socio-economic activities in coastal areas. To mitigate the impa...
Case Study, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Risk Assessment
After a massive influx of refugees from Myanmar into Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, an Environmental Field Advisor (EFA) has been deployed to help cope with the environmental impact and ensure emergency response activities do not further exa...
Case Study, Post-Disaster Recovery, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
The Strengthening Urban Resilience and Engagement (SURE) program developed a Participatory Campaign Planning (PCP) process to improve disaster messaging and increase awareness of disaster risks and mitigation measures among vulnerable groups in Nepal...
Case Study, Community Engagement and Accountability, Early Warning Systems, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Led by the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and supported by the German Red Cross, the Bangladesh FbF project is at the forefront of experience with FbF activation and funding delivery in the Asia-Pacific region. This case study examines the effecti...
Case Study, Early Warning Systems, Flood, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
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