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This publication presents a collection of 18 indigenous practices which were developed over time in the communities in the Asia-Pacific region. Types of disasters include earthquake, cyclone (...
A film focusing on adaptation to the effects of Climate Change that we have to face now and in the future.
These guidelines are oriented to the needs of the decision-maker and provide a description of the range of mitigation options that need to be considered when making efforts to reduce losses from...
This document provides extracts from relevant sustainable development (development and environment), and humanitarian international policy initiatives during the period 1994-2003, following the...
This report outlines the Consolidation Appeal for Guinea 2006. As a result of civil wars in the Mano River Union (MRU) countries, Guinea has hosted nearly one million refugees from Sierra Leone...
For the first time in history, half of humanity lives in towns and cities. However, of this three billion people, one billion have little to celebrate. Imagine raising your family in an...
This Field Operations Guide (FOG) for Disaster Assessment and Response has been developed by the U. S. Agency for International Development/Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian...
A guide to planning, design and building sanitation facilities in africa.
In the 1990s events in Bosnia, the former Soviet Union countries, Afghanistan and Northern Iraq showed that humanitarian disasters are not limited to the South, Africa, or the tropics, but may...
This paper presents an integrated analytic framework for tackling climate change through mainstreaming disaster risk management into overall development planning in urban areas. It discusses the...