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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
Assessment or evaluation

Water Security and Climate Resilient Development – Strategic Framework

23 Mar 2015
This Framework provides an approach for the development of ‘no/low regrets’ investments and financing strategies, as a starting point for embarking on climate resilient development in Africa. No/low regrets investments have the key characteristic...
Assessment or evaluation, Climate Change Adaptation, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
Guidance material

The Guidance Note on Recovery: Environment

23 Mar 2015
The Guidance Note on Recovery: Environment, along with its companion booklets, is an initial step in documenting, collecting and sharing disaster recovery experiences and lessons. IRP hopes that this collection of the successes and failures of past e...
Guidance material, Post-Disaster Recovery
Research

Disaster Conflict Interface

23 Mar 2015
The study aims to achieve a comparative analysis of tendencies and experiences that stem from the relationship between disasters and conflict. It also analyses the relative success of existing relevant programming approaches adopted incountry. This c...
Research, Post-Disaster Recovery
Video

These Are the Faces of Resilience (Chaparrastique Volcano)

20 Mar 2015
Since the December 2013 ash eruption of the Chaparratique Volcano in El Salvador, the communities located at its base have been working hard to reestablish themselves and recover from the shocks and stresses caused by the event. Today, these communit...
Video, Volcano, Youth Disaster Preparedness
Video

These Are the Faces of Resilience

20 Mar 2015
What is Resilience? It’s the ability of individuals, communities, or countries exposed to disasters to anticipate, reduce the impact of, cope with, and recover from the effects of adversity. Our resilience initiatives reduce vulnerabilities and s...
Video, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Other type of resource

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: 2015-2030

19 Mar 2015
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: 2015-2030 was adopted on March 18 at the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. The United Nations General Assembly Resolution adopted in 2013 (68/211) on International Strategy for Di...
Other type of resource, Disaster Law, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Video

Haiti Recovering, Improving, 3 Years After Quake

19 Mar 2015
Since the earthquake, the World Bank has significantly increased its support for Haiti, allocating half a billion dollars from the IDA Crisis Response Window. Some of that money is going to housing, while other efforts focus on reducing vulnerability...
Video, Earthquake, Post-Disaster Recovery

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