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Case study Terrorism in Europe

06 Oct 2015
This report examines a case study on effective community preparedness towards an act of terror. It is increasingly recognised that terrorism is a global threat that needs to be prepared for (Lemyre et al., 2006). The impacts of terrorist attacks in r...
Case Study
Case Study

Case Study Floods in Central Europe

06 Oct 2015
Floods are the most costly disasters (EEA 2010) in Europe. Although floods are quite common in many parts of Europe, they still pose a profound challenge to emergency and risk management agencies. This is particularly true in the large-scale river ba...
Case Study, Flood
Report

Report on risk perception and preparedness

06 Oct 2015
The findings of this report highlight advantages of different disciplinary approaches for informing preparedness; some are well suited to risk assessment and others for informing risk management and preparedness. Rapid response to all of the hazards ...
Report, Risk Assessment
Report

Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2015

06 Oct 2015
Humanitarian financing is in the spotlight like never before. An extraordinary combination of crises continues to test international, national and local capacity to prevent, prepare and respond as needs continue to outstrip available resources. Globa...
Report, Communication As Aid, Post-Disaster Recovery
Report

Good practices on economic empowerment of women in post-disaster reconstruction in Tohoku and the Asia-Pacific

02 Oct 2015
This report presents good practices in the promotion of economic empowerment of women in the post-disaster situations through entrepreneurship development in Japan and the Asia Pacific region. It discusses what contributed to the successful achieveme...
Report, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Assessment or evaluation, Case Study

Safer Schools, Resilient Communities: A Comparative Assessment of School Safety after the 2015 Nepal (Gorkha) Earthquakes

30 Sep 2015
The effects of the earthquake on Nepal’s educational infrastructure offer a rare opportunity to study whether previous interventions to improve building practices, combined with community engagement, have resulted in safer schools and communities. ...
Assessment or evaluation, Case Study, Earthquake, Infrastructure and Services, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Report

Nepal Earthquake: Agricultural Livelihoods Impact Appraisal in Six Most Affected Districts

30 Sep 2015
This report presents a coherent picture of the impact of the Nepal earthquake on agriculture in the six most affected districts: Dhading, Dolakha, Gorkha, Nuwakot, Rasuwa and Sindhupalchock. It identifies priorities for recovery for families dependen...
Report, Earthquake, Livelihoods and Food Security
Report

2015 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop – Report and Presentations

25 Sep 2015
The 2015 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop, held on 23-24 September 2015 in Rome, Italy, brought together over 120 experts from around the world to share technical experiences and advance the use of CAP for effective emergency al...
Report, Early Warning Systems
Report

World Disasters Report 2015: Focus on local actors, the key to humanitarian effectiveness

24 Sep 2015
Local actors are often the most effective in conducting humanitarian operations. However, despite their critical role, they struggle to attract the funding and support they need. The 2015 World Disasters Report – by the International Federation of ...
Report
Video

ICCM 2013: Jus MacKinnon: Media Monitoring in support of UN-OCHA’s response to Typhoon Yolanda

23 Sep 2015
Justine MacKinnon from the Standby Task Force discusses Media Monitoring and Mapping in support of UN-OCHA’s response to Typhoon Yolanda. Working with the Digital Humanitarian Network & wonderful volunteers from around the world to examine...
Video, Mapping and Geospatial Data

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