The third edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is a resource for understanding and analysing global disaster risk today and in the future.
Roles, mandates and results of work of key United Nations entities:
This publication provides an overview of roles, mandates and areas of work of UN agencies, along with the World Bank, to support local, national and regional efforts to reduce disaster
This report shows the relationship of specific activities to the five priorities for action of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and the strategic objectives governing them. It reveals the overall connection of national efforts to the expectations of
This document summarizes strategic recommendations to ensure recovery and reconstruction are explicitly referred to in the Post-2015 Global Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (HFA2).
This report seeks to measure progress in the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) implementation in the Asia-Pacific region by synthesizing the review process and outcomes of the HFA national progress reports submitted by 36 countries during the review period
This report asserts that the more widespread integration of science into disaster risk reduction policy making will depend on science being ‘useful, useable and used’. The case studies in the report describe specific examples of scientific learning being
This synthesis report provides countries and all stakeholders with an overview of the issues emerging to date on the consultations and development of a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (HFA2). The key purpose of this report is to provide
This study explains trends in public investments for disaster risk reduction (DRR) at national, provincial, and local levels in India in order to identify potential weaknesses in the current system of DRR budget allocation. Divided into eleven sections
This briefing note examines the relation between climate change and disaster risk reduction (DRR). The increase in extreme weather events in the future will likely increase the number and magnitude of disasters, at the same time, the methods and existing
This guidance note presents a series of steps to initiate and sustain Pre Disaster Recovery Planning (PDRP) in order to ensure that communities "build back better" following a natural disaster.
