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Réponse aprés le séisme au Népal: Enseignements pour les agences opérationnelles

21 Aug 2015
Le présent rapport sur les enseignements tirés a pour but d’aider les agencies opérationnelles intervenant après le tremblement de terre qui a frappé le Népal le 25 avril 2015. S’inspirant de l’expérience de catastrophes passées similai...
Other type of resource, Earthquake
Case Study

Disaster Response: Ooredoo responds to a Water Crisis in the Maldives

17 Aug 2015
On the 4th of December 2014, a fire broke out at the Maldives Water and Sewerage Company Generator Unit located on the island capital Malé resulting in the cutting off of drinking water to over 150,000 people. Whilst government bodies acted quickly ...
Case Study, Business Preparedness, Post-Disaster Recovery
Case Study

Disaster Response: DEWN – Dialog’s Disaster and Emergency Warning Network

17 Aug 2015
On December 26th 2014, the tenth anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Sri Lankan Mobile Network Operator Dialog unveiled version 2 of is Disaster and Emergency Warning Network; DEWN v2. Developed in the aftermath of the 2004 disaster, DEWN v1 uti...
Case Study, Early Warning Systems, Mobile Technology
Report

Disaster Response: Mobile Money for the Displaced

17 Aug 2015
Advances in mobile technology have opened up new opportunities, not only for communication, but also for using the mobile handset as a platform for a range of applications. The introduction of data transfer facilities and the rise of mobile financial...
Report, Mobile Technology
Case Study

Case Study: Lessons learned from community mapping in urban and rural areas in East Africa and Bangladesh

12 Aug 2015
The Missing Maps project aims to literally and figuratively put more than 20 million vulnerable, at-risk people on the map using OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a platform. We need to fill in these “missing maps” before the next disaster strikes ensuring ...
Case Study, Mapping and Geospatial Data
Report

Strengthening livelihood capacities to disaster risk reduction in Nepal

12 Aug 2015
This book documents the lessons learned during the Livelihood Centred Approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction project in the Chitwan and Nawalparasi districts of Nepal. It describes the prevailing physical, institutional and socio-economic context, and...
Report, Livelihoods and Food Security
Guidance material

Protected areas as tools for Disaster Risk Reduction. A handbook for practitioners

12 Aug 2015
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has therefore become a critical part of sustainable development strategies. The acronym DRR embraces a complex mixture of policies and actions, from education of civil society, through disaster preparedness strategies to...
Guidance material, Drought, Earthquake, Flood, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Landslide, Tsunami, Volcano, Wildfire
Guidance material

Multi-Agency Resource Center – MARC: Planning Resource

11 Aug 2015
Multi-Agency Resource Center (MARC), can be an efficient way to deliver services to individuals and families affected by a disaster by bringing together multiple service providers in a single location and providing on-site assistance. This resource i...
Guidance material, Infrastructure and Services, Livelihoods and Food Security, Post-Disaster Recovery
Other type of resource, Research

Disaster Resilience Journal

10 Aug 2015
The Disaster Resilience Journal is an interactive documentary that examines how individuals, communities and countries around the world are building resilience in a landscape of climate change, and social, economic and cultural shifts. The documenta...
Other type of resource, Research, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Risk Assessment
Awareness material, Research

La memoria es también porvenir. Historia mundial de los desastres

07 Aug 2015
A lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, nos hemos preocupado mucho más sobre las consecuencias de los desastres que sobre cuáles fueron sus causas. Esta visión reactiva sobre los desastres ha prevalecido durante varios siglos. Sin embargo, en l...
Awareness material, Research

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