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Global Survey of Early Warning Systems

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With a view to establish a “worldwide early warning system for all natural hazards building on existing national and regional capacity”, United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Kofi Annan requested in March 2005 that a global survey of capacities and gaps for early warning systems be undertaken.The present report synthesizes the findings of this survey, which was carried out by the ISDR secretariat in collaboration with a multi-party working group established at the 11th session of the more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on September 02, 2009

Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction

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The Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction present a framework of guiding principles and general steps to develop a context-specific plan to address this critical gap to reaching EFA and the MDGs through the disaster resilient construction and retrofitting of school buildings. The guidance notes consist of four components: General information and advocacy points: A series of suggested steps; A compilation of basic design principles; A broad list of references to resources. Full document in more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on August 04, 2009

Contexts and Policy Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction: Sustainable Development

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In today’s world, societies are confronted with rapid change. Therefore, the value of disaster risk reduction can only be realized through rigorous identification and continuous evaluation of the relationships that exist between the beliefs and conditions in which people live, the changing environment people inhabit and depend upon for their livelihoods, and the forces of nature.Political support for disaster risk reduction has to be established from the apex of political power but is only more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 22, 2009

Country activities report 2009

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This report summarizes UN-HABITAT’s programme aimed at building capacities at local and national levels to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries through slum upgrading policy development and implementation of pilot projects. It carries short summaries of each of the agency’s country activities, including disaster management programmes and disaster risk reduction projects. These reference sheets include: the total project or programme more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 23, 2009

Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development

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A considerable incentive for rethinking disaster risk as an integral part of the development process comes from the aim of achieving the goals laid out in the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration sets forth a road map for human development supported by 191 nations. Eight Millennium Development Goals were agreed upon in 2000, which in turn have been broken down into 18 targets with 48 indicators for progress. Most goals are set for achievement by 2015. The MDGs contain cross-cutting more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on March 22, 2009

Capacity For Disaster Reduction Initiative (CADRI)

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The Capacity For Disaster Reduction Initiative is a joint programme of the United Nations Development Programme’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. Recognizing that capacity development is a cross-cutting activity for disaster risk reduction, CADRI relates to all of the five priorities of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on March 17, 2009

World in transition: climate change as a security risk

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This flagship report summarizes the state-of-the-art of science on the subject of “Climate Change as a Security Risk”. It is based on the findings of research into environmental conflicts, the causes of war, and of climate impact research. It appraises past experience but also ventures to cast a glance far into the future in order to assess the likely impacts of climate change on societies, nation-states, regions and the international system. Full document [PDF 19.63 MB]; Number of pages: more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 26, 2009

Disaster risk, livelihoods and natural barriers, strengthening decision-making tools for disaster risk reduction: a case study from Northern Pakistan

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The goal of this interdisciplinary study is to better understand the land use factors that increase vulnerability of mountain areas in northern Pakistan. The study will identify and analyse the damages and losses caused by the October 2005 earthquake in two areas of the same valley: one 'low-risk' watershed with sound natural resources management, the other, 'high-risk' in an ecologically degraded watershed. Secondly, the study will examine natural and man-made causes of secondary hazards in more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 09, 2009

Rebuilding Fiscal Institutions in Post conflict Countries

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This paper was prepared for a seminar of the IMF Executive Board on technical assistance in fiscal and monetary areas provided by the Fund to post-conflict countries. It discusses experiences in reestablishing fiscal management in those countries; reviews the challenges in rebuilding fiscal institutions based on experiences in 14 post-conflict countries; and identifies key priorities in the fiscal area following the cessation of hostilities. The proliferation of violent conflicts over the more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on January 13, 2009

Disaster Risk Reduction: Implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA)

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Disasters cost lives, destroy communities, wreck havoc on people’s livelihoods and leave a lasting impact not only on physical infrastructure but also on people’s psycho-social well-being. Although the number of deaths from disasters has dropped over the last ten years, more people are being affected and the economic consequences are becoming ever more severe. In development terms, disasters can have a devastating economic impact both at the household and community level as well as the national more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on December 21, 2008

A science plan for integrated research on disaster risk

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The impacts of natural hazards continue to increase around the world; the frequency of recorded disasters affecting communities significantly rose from about 100 per decade in the period 1900-1940, to 650 per decade in the 1960s and 2000 per decade in the 1980s, and reached almost 2800 per decade in the 1990s. Hundreds of thousands of people are killed and millions injured, affected or displaced each year because of disasters, and the amount of property damage has been doubling about every more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on December 01, 2008

Cuba: A culture of safety

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Most local and national governments are ill-equipped to manage and adapt to environmental hazards, including climate variability and climate change. This is a developmental issue, and it makes large sections of urban populations vulnerable to any increase in the frequency or intensity of storms, to increased risk of disease or constraints on water supplies, and to increases in food prices, to which wealthier, better governed cities are typically quick to adapt. A shift from disaster response to more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on November 24, 2008

Tracking the money: international experience with financial information systems and databases for reconstruction

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In the aftermath of major humanitarian crises, whether caused by natural disasters or conflicts, the international community has pledged increasingly large amounts of aid to help rebuild devastated regions. All donors—public and private—of aid programs have a strong interest in ensuring that their resources are well spent. To address that concern and capture the flow of the resources, tracking systems have been developed and applied. Today, several database systems exist, most notably the more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on November 19, 2008

Indicators of progress: guidance on measuring the reduction of disaster risks and the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action

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The document aims to support the development of a managerial, indicator-based approach to the design and implementation of disaster risk reduction activities, as a means to improve the effectiveness of policies and activities, and to provide guidance to national authorities to help them develop indicators tailored to their needs. The intended audiences for this guide are primarily the national authorities and officials who have responsibilities for implementing disaster risk reduction more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on November 10, 2008

Global facility for disaster reduction and recovery: handbook on the standby recovery financing facility

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Natural hazards pose a growing threat to developing countries that lack financial or material resources to mitigate their risks to catastrophes or recover from the effects. International aid is generously made available once a country is hit by a disaster. But when the humanitarian assistance phase is completed, affected countries have difficulty accessing funds for recovery interventions before longer-term reconstruction and development programs can commence. To bridge this gap, the Global more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on November 04, 2008

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