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This briefing paper provides a synthesis of, and introduction to, key lessons from evaluations of relief and recovery/humanitarian response to flooding in the last 20 years from Africa, Asia and...
This briefing paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learned from relief responses to past earthquakes. The main intended audiences are operational decision-makers and relief Program managers...
This paper aims to provide a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes. It concentrates on issues of particular relevance in earthquakes. \nThe paper...
Disaster response in an urban environment presents a wide variety of challenges. Humanitarian organisations often have more experience of disaster response in rural settings, and local authorities...
This brief discussion note takes a critical look at assumptions that disaster risks are likely to be addressed in the course of post-disaster recovery efforts and was developed in particular to...
This paper is meant to provide additional information about indicators specifically relating to risk reduction in order to inform the possible selection and adaptation of risk reduction indicators...