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Safety guidelines and good practices for tailings management facilities

24 Mar 2015
The effective and safe disposal of mining wastes presents technical and environmental challenges. Each facility is unique, so a tailor-made and sound approach is needed to ensure that the TMF is safe, environmentally sound and economical. Although TM...
Guidance material, Technological hazard
Report

UNDP and the Hyogo Framework for Action

24 Mar 2015
This report outlines UNDP’s engagement in implementing the HFA and highlights the results that it has achieved in the years 2005–2014. Based on the report, ‘Protecting Development from Disasters: UNDP’s Support to the Hyogo Framework for Acti...
Report
Guidance material

DiDRR guidelines: early warning and accessible broadcasting

24 Mar 2015
This guideline is designed to address the lack of appropriate information and practices on inclusive policies and practices on disaster preparedness, accessible early warnings, accessible transportation, and life safety and evacuation of persons with...
Guidance material, Communication As Aid, Early Warning Systems, Mobile Technology
Report

Orchestrating infrastructure for sustainable Smart Cities

24 Mar 2015
This White Paper is the fifth in a series whose purpose is to ensure that the IEC can continue through its International Standards and Conformity Assessment services to solve global problems in electrotechnology. The White Papers are developed by the...
Report, Infrastructure and Services, Urban Resilience
Guidance material, Video

Safe transport of suspected ebola patients

23 Mar 2015
To prevent spreading of the virus, Ebola patients (and suspected cases) need to be transported in a safe way. After transporting confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola, some steps need to be taken for disinfecting the vehicle used for the transport.
Guidance material, Video, Communicable Disease
Awareness material, Video

Overcoming fear in Ebola-affected communities

23 Mar 2015
One year since the confirmed Ebola outbreak in Guinea, a lot of fear and stigma remain in communities affected by the disease. Some communities prevent responders from entering, mistakenly believing they are responsible for spreading the virus. Volun...
Awareness material, Video, Communicable Disease
Video

Bolstering Resilience to Floods and Storms in Vietnam

23 Mar 2015
Over the past two decades, extreme weather events have caused more than 13,000 deaths and property damage in excess of $6.4 billion in Vietnam. More than 70% of the country’s population is at risk of natural hazards, particularly the rural and ...
Video, Flood, Infrastructure and Services, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Case Study

Women’s Leadership in Risk-Resilient Development

23 Mar 2015
This publication aims to shed some light on women’s capabilities to take leading roles in building disaster resilience. It features women as drivers of change in different socio-economic contexts, and under various gender conditions. While the exam...
Case Study, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Report

The human cost of natural disasters: a global perspective

23 Mar 2015
This report presents data about natural disasters impacts (human and economic) at world scale for the last 20 years. The analyses focus on trends and patterns of impacts and how these vary regarding the income level or the geographical location. Base...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Financing, Drought, Earthquake, Flood, Risk Assessment, Tsunami
Report

Disaster-related displacement risk: measuring the risk and addressing its drivers

23 Mar 2015
This study reflects an awareness of the need to see disasters as primarily social, rather than natural, phenomena. This view acknowledges the fact that humans can act and take decisions to reduce the likelihood of a disaster occurring or, at the very...
Report, Risk Assessment

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