Publicaciones de UNDRR

This document looks at the disaster risk reduction schemes related to climate change, in developing countries. It discusses three main issues: disaster risk components, risk management and level of actions.

The author identifies the following approaches

This paper discusses the PEOPLES Resilience Framework, which has been used to create partnerships and communicate pre- and post-disaster recovery of extreme events. The framework can be combined with environmental, infrastructure, economic or any other

This document presents the work of various International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) and lessons learnt deriving from their projects on the field. The paper discusses their policy and programmatic changes.

The author makes the following

This paper reflects the initiatives taken by Bangladesh in this respect and analyses the policy related issues ahead to achieve an effective streamlining for building capacity through the adoption of appropriate disaster risk reduction strategy. The

This paper introduces a technology platform for the global network on climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). The platform defines a foundation that provides various products or services and its objective is to allow business

This paper explains how mitigating the emergence and spread of infectious disease necessitates mapping and prioritising the interdependencies between public health and other sectors. Conversely, during an international public health emergency, significant

This paper examines the heterogeneity within Africa’s institutional arrangements for climate-related disaster risk management and introduces a classification that ranks each country as one of three disaster management policy types: the ‘Unprepared

The paper focuses on reviewing the progress achieved against HFA Priority for Action 1 ("Ensuring that disaster risk reduction is a national and local priority with a strong institutional basis for implementation") and specifically the progress in

This paper presents a pilot project initiated by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in southern Sri Lanka, which helped to address problems and policy issues in relation to flood protection while mainstreaming climate information applications in order