UNDRR Publications

The materials contained in this supplementary document complement those found in the existing IRP Guidance Note on Recovery – Health.

This paper provides an overview on current trends and research findings for technologies within crisis communication and disaster risk reduction. The outcomes of the analysis highlight five different issues that are important for effective and efficient

The Comprehensive School Safety framework aims to reduce the risks of all hazards to the education sector.

This report profiles the frequency, location and severity of natural hazards across Africa, a continent that holds half of the world’s most risk-prone countries, and is experiencing a rising number of disasters. The report examines risk drivers that

This document presents the methodology and key findings of a policy-benchmarking framework that assesses country-specific policies and institutions for disaster risk management. The report is in response to a global shift towards improved disaster risk

This report analyses data regarding past impacts and projections for tsunami disaster risk. Tsunamis are rare, powerful and unpredictable natural hazards, and they are the deadliest type of major natural disaster on the planet in terms of the proportion

This report analyses EM-DAT data of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters regarding disaster mortality and vulnerability around the world. Of the 1.35 million people killed by natural hazards over the past 20 years, more than half died

This document attempts to fill knowledge gaps regarding the role of the private sector in disaster recovery and draws from the wider body of knowledge and from documented experiences of past and present disaster planning and recovery.

This study aims at identifying current available information for quantifying the economic losses from burnt ecosystems. Its main objective is to highlight gaps and identify where improvements are needed in order to achieve a more precise evaluation of

This report aims to answer the questions: i) how can decentralisation strengthen disaster risk reduction (DRR), and ii) what obstacles are encountered and how can these be overcome. The evidence in this report is drawn from a global literature review and