Designing and implementing study tours
that get results can be a big undertaking. This guide, the
art of designing and implementing study tours, aims to take
out the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 119847Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Kumar,Shobha ;
Watkins,Ryan
More than 1 billion people have lifted
themselves out of poverty in the past 15 years, but climate
and disaster risks threaten these achievements. Global asset
losses...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 118676Date: January 1, 2017
The main goal of conducting a
Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) is to assist
governments to assess the full extent of a disaster’s impact
on the country and, on...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114671Date: January 1, 2017
Global facility for disaster reduction
and recovery (GFDRR) supports governments in designing
financial protection strategies and instruments to respond
to natural disasters....
Type: BriefReport#: 114486Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Mahul,Olivier
Slovenia's population and economy
are exposed to earthquakes and floods, with earthquakes
posing the greater risk of a high impact. Just over half of
Slovenia's population...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114757Date: January 1, 2017
The main objective of Post-disaster
needs assessment (PDNA) Environment is to prepare a recovery
strategy that guides the restoration of environment and
natural resources...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114670Date: January 1, 2017
Proper coordination is critical to
saving lives and meeting emergency needs when it comes to
responding to natural disasters. Until recently the Kyrgyz
Republic, a country...
Type: BriefReport#: 115239Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Takeuchi,Ko
Film is a very effective tool for
communicating knowledge about volcanic hazards and risk.
Teaming with scientists and communication experts, a team
from the University...
Recent events have drawn the world’s
attention to a crisis that has been building up for a long
time—forced displacement. Beside five million Palestinians,
over half...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 117751Date: January 1, 2017
The State and Peacebuilding Fund (SPF)
offers a unique platform to support critical development
operations, global analysis and learning, and
multi-stakeholder partnerships...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 117966Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Bance,Paul G. A. ;
Bisca,Paul Maximilian
Building resilience to natural hazards
begins with a better understanding of disaster risk. In an
effort to bridge gaps in risk information and create a
self-sustaining...
Type: BriefReport#: 114477Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Simpson,Alanna Leigh
Targeted risk information is critical to
enabling effective policies that reduce risk and make
communities safer. Through its innovative frontline program,
the Global...
The outputs of this project can be
summarized as providing real time dike and levee information
at local scales (up to 10,000 ha) that is collected,
analysed and used...
Japan entered its period of rapid
economic growth in the late 1950s, and for half a century
since then, the concentration of population, industries, and
other functions...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 138019Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Jain,Vibhu ;
Arai,Yuko
The Slovak Republic's population
and economy are exposed to earthquakes and floods, with
flood posing the greater risk. Just over half of the Slovak
Republic's population...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114755Date: January 1, 2017
There is no unique definition of
governance used by all Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA)
partners, yet each recognises that it is closely linked to
the exercise...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114675Date: January 1, 2017
Armenia’s population and economy are
exposed to earthquakes and floods, with earthquakes posing
the greater risk of a high impact, but lower probability
event. The model...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114698Date: January 1, 2017
The population and economy of the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are exposed to earthquakes
and floods, with floods posing the greater risk. The model
results...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114699Date: January 1, 2017
Effective risk assessment and disaster
recovery efforts can only be as good as the data that
informs them. With missing or inadequate risk information
hindering resilience...
Type: BriefReport#: 114475Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Simpson,Alanna Leigh
The northern and eastern provinces of
Sri Lanka constitute a lagging region of the country that
has experienced armed conflict for nearly three decades. The
major challenge...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 119306Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Sharafudheen,Tara
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