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Pakistan: Children can play an important role in disaster preparedness

06 Sep 2013
An article by Amir Murtaza published by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the interests and capabilities of children to paly a role in decision-making related to development plans for their schools, playgrounds, and streets. In the last ten years,...
Report, Youth Disaster Preparedness
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Managing Disaster Risks: Sendai Report

29 Aug 2013
The Sendai Report argues that the practice of disaster risk management (DRM) is a defining characteristic of resilient societies, and should therefore be integrated– or ‘mainstreamed’–into all aspects of development. The report outlines how t...
Report
Case Study, Report

No time for doubt: Tackling urban risk

29 Aug 2013
Compilation of case studies on Red Cross urban resilience and preparedness programs from Colombia, Jamaica and Nicaragua. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) is responding to urban plight in the Americas Zone through the...
Case Study, Report, Urban Resilience

Mexico’s Natural Disaster Fund – A Review

27 Aug 2013
“As part of its disaster risk management efforts, the Federal Government of Mexico established the Fund for Natural Disasters FONDEN to support disaster relief and reconstruction. FONDEN was originally established as a budgetary tool through wh...
Disaster Risk Financing

Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF): Regional Parametric Insurance and Sovereign Disaster Risk Financing

27 Aug 2013
The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) is the world’s first multi-country, multi-peril catastrophe risk pool, owned and operated by Caribbean governments. Launched in 2007 in response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Iv...
Disaster Risk Financing

Turkey: Addressing private risks – the Turkey Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP)

27 Aug 2013
The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) is a compulsory public-private earthquake insurance scheme established in 2000 in response to the devastating 1999 Marmara earthquake, which killed 15,000 people and placed enormous fiscal strain on the T...
Disaster Risk Financing

Seguro Agrícola Índice para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastre: Sistematización del Fondo de Mitigación del Riesgo Agrícola (FMRA) en Bolivia

27 Aug 2013
Este recurso documenta un innovador esquema de seguro agrícola basado en índices, desarrollado y piloteado por la alianza PROFIN-PROSUCO-F-UNAPA en cuatro municipios del Altiplano Norte de Bolivia — Patacamaya, Tiwanaku, Batallas y Achacachi — ...
Disaster Risk Financing

Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE)

27 Aug 2013
The Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE) program is a community-based disaster response initiative developed under the Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER), a regional training program initiated by USAID’s Office of Fo...

Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER)

27 Aug 2013
PEER is a regional training program initiated in 1998 by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) to strengthen disaster response capacities in Asia. PEER builds on a similar program t...
Report, Research

Flood Vulnerability Assessment in Nepal: Community-Based Participatory Study of Indicators and Parameters in the West Rapti River Basin

27 Aug 2013
This peer-reviewed article, published in the Journal of Earth Science and Climate Change (2013), presents a community-level participatory flood vulnerability assessment conducted in the West Rapti River Basin in the Mid-Western Terai region of Nepal ...
Report, Research

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