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Earthquake Scenario of Kathmandu Valley

01 Apr 2015
Visit the NRRC at: http://www.un.org.np/coordinationmech…Follow the NRRC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NepalDRRFollow the NRRC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NepalDRR Nepal is prone to a variety of disasters. One of the major concer...
Video
Guidance material, Video

Earthquake Safe Building Practices in Nepal: Video Toolkit

01 Apr 2015
Earthquake Safe Building Practices in Nepal: Video Toolkit by UNDP Nepal Earthquake Safe Building Practices in Nepal: Video Toolkit (Episode 1), Earthquake Safe Building Practices in Nepal: Video Toolkit (Episode 2), Earthquake Safe Building Practice...
Guidance material, Video, Earthquake
Awareness material, Other type of resource

The Impact of Natural Hazards and Disasters on Agriculture and Food and Nutritions Security: A Call for Action to Build Resilient Livelihoods

31 Mar 2015
There is a critical information gap in terms of the quantitative economic impact of disasters on agriculture and on the livelihoods and food security of populations affected. FAO has undertaken a study to help fill this information gap, and to quanti...
Awareness material, Other type of resource, Livelihoods and Food Security
Report

Disaster Relief 2.0: The future of information sharing in humanitarian emergencies

31 Mar 2015
After a large-scale disaster, there is always a massive effort to collect and analyze large volumes of data and distill from the chaos the critical information needed to target humanitarian aid most efficiently. But the response to the 2010 earthquak...
Report, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology
Other type of resource

Applying technology to crisis mapping and early warning in humanitarian settings

31 Mar 2015
The purpose of this Working Paper on Crisis Mapping is to briefly analyze the current use, and changing role, of information communication technology (ICT) in conflict early warning, crisis mapping and humanitarian response. We demonstrate that ICTs ...
Other type of resource, Early Warning Systems, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology
Report

Crowdsourcing Crisis Information in Disaster-Affected Haiti

31 Mar 2015
This report was commissioned by the United States Institute of Peace’s Center of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding and Haiti Working Group. It examines the role of Ushahidi, a crisis-mapping platform, in the disaster relief effo...
Report, Early Warning Systems, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology
Video

TEDxKC – Patrick Meier – Changing The World, One Map At A Time

31 Mar 2015
Maps have always been a source of fascination and intrigue. Today’s maps, however, can also help to save lives during disasters, document human rights abuses and monitor elections in countries under repressive rule. This presentation will expla...
Video, Early Warning Systems, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology
Report

Everyone Counts: 2012 Baseline data from 189 RC/RC Societies

31 Mar 2015
Everyone counts: Key data from 189 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies – a baseline In 2012, the IFRC reached more than 85 million people through disaster response and early recovery programming worldwide. During the same reporting p...
Report
Awareness material

Unlocking the “triple dividend” of resilience – Why investing in disaster risk management pays off

30 Mar 2015
The risk of a disaster can cause economic losses even before a disaster strikes. Investing in disaster resilience, therefore, can yield a ‘triple dividend’ by (1) avoiding losses when disasters strike; (2) unlocking development potential by stimu...
Awareness material, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Report, Research

Disaster risk governance: Unlocking progress and reducing risk

30 Mar 2015
The call and the analysis presented here responds to an identified need for more comparative studies on how governance systems and development situations have shaped progress on disaster risk management (DRM). This paper reviews a selected number of ...
Report, Research, Disaster Law

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