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UNEP Disasters and Conflicts: Quarterly Progress Report

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Under the Post-Crisis Environmental Assessment pillar of the Disasters and Conflicts sub program, UNEP offers technical assistance to countries where critical ecosystems or natural resources have been directly or indirectly degraded, damaged or destroyed by conflicts and disasters. Field-based assessments using sound science and state-of the-art technology identify environmental risks to human health, livelihoods and security with the aim of integrating environmental needs into relief and more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on January 08, 2010

Moving Beyond Rhetoric: Consultation and Participation with Populations Displaced by Conflict or Natural Disasters

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The importance of engaging directly with populations affected by poverty, conflict and disaster is a common theme in the literature on humanitarian aid, development and peace building. The mandate to engage in consultation and participation with affected communities has been enshrined in, for example, UN Security Council Resolutions, UN agency manuals, international conventions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) codes of conduct and guidelines, as well as the Guiding Principles on Internal more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on July 15, 2009

“Clouds but Little Rain…”

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The first independent study assessing the progress undertaken in implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action at local level identifies a significant gap between national and local level action. The report, conducted by the Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction, was completed in June 2009 for presentation at the Second Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Full document in PDF Format (2.48MB); Number of pages: 70p; Source(s): Global Network of more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 16, 2009

Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development

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Some 75 percent of the world’s populations live in areas affected at least once by earthquake, tropical cyclone, flood or drought between 1980 and 2000. The consequences of such widespread exposure to natural hazard for human development are only now beginning to be identified. This Report shows that billions of people in more than 100 countries are periodically exposed to at least one event of earthquake, tropical cyclone, flood or drought. As a result of disasters triggered by these natural more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 03, 2009

Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction: A Tool for Development Organizations

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This paper offers a practical tool to help development organizations mainstream disaster risk reduction into their relief and development planning and programming. Performance targets and indicators are presented to help organizations assess, measure and monitor their progress with mainstreaming. The targets/indicators cover six key areas of organizations’ work. The paper also identifies a series of factors that influence the pace of mainstreaming. This tool is significant because, while there more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 03, 2009

Community Risk Assessment Toolkit

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The Toolkit contains methodological resources from many different organizations and case studies. Guidance notes have been developed which provides a detailed analysis and brief synthesis of case studies and methodologies. Intended users of the Toolkit are international NGOs and their partner organizations, local government staff, risk researchers and community based organizations, active in developmental and/or humanitarian work.

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 03, 2009

Gender Justice in Disaster Response

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Gender mainstreaming - assessing the implications of any action on woman and men - is a well-developed concept among aid providers. Despite this, many of the recovery efforts that followed the first 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami fell short of specific measures to address the needs of people marginalized by gender and, as a result, often perpetuated pre-disaster inequalities. Oxfam joined with researchers from Anawim Trust in Tamil Nadu, India, to examine the good practices and challenges as NGOs more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on May 20, 2009

GEO 2009-2011 workplan

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This document presents the workplan for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) for the 2009-2011 period. The chapter dedicated to the disasters presents the following programmes: Use of Satellites for Risk Management, Systematic Monitoring for Geohazards Risk Assessment, Multi-Risk Management and Regional Applications and Warning Systems for Disasters. Full Plan in PDF format (765kb): Number of pages: 55p

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 10, 2009

Wondering role of grocery shopkeepers on awareness building

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This paper cites the role of a shopkeeper in a local bazar as a good practice in disaster risk awareness-raising and the implementation of the Community Based Disaster Preparedness (CBDP) project by the Dhaka Ahsania Mission and Concern Universal, funded by European Commission. It describes CBDP project staff meeting community members at the local bazar to explain the project goals and objectives and inform the community about future plans and techniques on disaster preparedness more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 10, 2009

The importance of mangrove forest in tsunami disaster mitigation

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Tsunamis and storm surges have killed more than one million people and some three billion people currently live with a high risk of these disasters, which are becoming more frequent and devastating worldwide. Effective mitigation of such disasters is possible via healthy coastal forests, which can reduce the energy of tsunamis. In recent years, these natural barriers have declined due to adverse human and natural activities. In the past 20 years, the world has lost almost 50 per cent of its more...

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

Advanced rescue techniques: lessons learned from the collapse of a building in Nairobi, Kenya

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This paper examines the collapse of a five-storey building in Nairobi, Kenya, on 23 January 2006. It draws on reports from local authorities and on debriefings by Israel's Home Front Command (HFC), including information on injury distribution, rescue techniques, and the mode of operation. Most of the 117 people found under the structure were evacuated on the first day to a public hospital, which was overwhelmed by the incident. HFC forces arrived 23 hours after the disaster. At that stage, two more...

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

Natural Disaster- and Conflict-Induced Displacement: Similarities, Differences and Inter-Connections

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A natural disaster is defined by the UN as: “the consequences of events triggered by natural hazards that overwhelm local response capacity and seriously affect the social and economic development of a region.”[1] There is a burning debate in the humanitarian field about just how ‘natural’ are natural disasters – which raises interesting opportunities to relate to those working on human-induced climate change. For example, landslides are reportedly becoming more common in Nepal. This may be the more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 06, 2009

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