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Characteristics of a disaster resilient community text
This guidance note is for government and civil society organisations working on disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives at community level, in partnership with vulnerable communities. It shows what a ‘disaster-resilient community’ might consist of, by setting out the many different elements of resilience. It also provides some ideas about how to progress towards resilience. Authored by John Twigg.
UN/ISDR Highlights July 2007
A monthly bulletin to facilitate the exchange of information about activities in the field of disaster risk reduction.
Institutional donor progress with mainstreaming disaster risk reduction
Self assessment reviews from 11 organizations detailing their progress on incorporating disaster risk reduction strategies into their relief and development planning and programming. The reviews facilitated by Tearfund.
BUHRC publications
Publications from the Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre, including pieces on risk reduction and community resiliency.
ProVention publications
The ProVention Consortium is a global coalition of international organisations, governments, the private sector, civil society organisations and academic institutions dedicated to increasing the safety of vulnerable communities and to reducing the impacts of disasters in developing countries. It provides a forum for multi-stakeholder dialogue on disaster risk reduction and a framework for collective action.
Tools for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction
In January 2007, ProVention published a series of 14 guidance notes for use by development organisations in adapting programming, project appraisal and evaluation tools to mainstream disaster risk reduction into development work in hazard-prone countries. The guidelines are deliberately intended as short, practical briefs supplementing existing, more general, guidelines on programming, appraisal and evaluation tools.
Ethiopia: Handbook On Reducing Disaster Risks Launched
A handbook containing information on how to reduce disaster risks and other forms of natural and manmade calamities was launched by the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) in collaboration with Save the Children USA, Care, Catholic Relief Services, International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Oxfam-GB and World Vision of the inter agency working group on emergency capacity building (ECB).
ProVention newsletter - June 2007
ProVention News provides a brief update on current ProVention activities, events and recent publications or resources for organisations and practitioners active in disaster risk management.
Eclipse Africa - information network about DRR in Africa
EclipseAfrica is an information network, providing information on disaster risk reduction to professionals in disaster management and related fields such as conflict management, development and peace building. It seeks to create awareness on the need to mainstream disaster risk reduction into development, recovery and reconstruction activities and emphasis on solutions to disaster risk issues and problems across Africa. EclipseAfrica is operated by a team of independent researchers which produces “The Eclipse”, a weekly electronic magazine, which raises issues on various disaster risk reduction strategies. About 600 professionals in disaster management and related fields currently receive “The Eclipse” and this number is growing. The scope of distribution is based on the knowledge that reducing the risk of and responding to disasters often requires that communities undergo changes, and that multi-disciplinary efforts are required to achieve required changes. Its audience includes conflict managers, development workers, human rights activists, journalists, students, educationists, extractive industry workers and disaster managers.
Global Risks 2007
This report, from 2007 January, highlights a growing disconnect between the power of global risks to cause major systemic disruption, and the ability to mitigate them. The annual Global Risks report – published by the World Economic Forum in cooperation with Citigroup, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Swiss Re and the Wharton School Risk Center – suggests that many of the 23 core global risks explored in the report have worsened over the last 12 months, despite growing awareness of their potential impacts. In addition to specific risk mitigation measures, institutional innovations may be needed to create effective responses to a complex risk landscape.
Risk and Capacity Assessment: Risk Map
This is an Excel based mapping tool for organizing and classifying a number of risk factors and response capacities in a clear, simple presentation form. A product of World Vision International , the Risk Map contains limited WVI specific language, but should be readily understandable and adaptable for use by others.
Community Owned Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (COVACA)
This 127 page document comprises a comprehensive background and rationale for the development of the tool as well as a hands on instruction manual for implementation including worksheet templates. The focus of the COVACA is ensuring that quality vulnerability and capacity assessment is a product of its rightful owner, the community. COVACA is a product of World Vision International, and as such involves some WVI specific language and considerations, but all acronyms are defined and the tool can be adapted to other agencies’ needs.
Building Disaster Resilient Communities: Good Practices and Lessons Learned
This 54 page document from the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is built upon and organized as 16 case studies on community resilience initiatives. Presented by country, each case study includes an abstract, a description of the initiative including goals, objectives, activities and outcomes, and a summary of good practices and lessons learned in the process. This document covers numerous aspects of DRR and resilience building, compiled from numerous agencies surveyed. Submitted as part of a cooperative effort to build a small library of easy-access references for best practices and lessons in existing documents, this resource can also be found on linked pages within this portal.
Gender Perspective: Working Together for Disaster Risk Reduction.
This 54 page document from the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is built upon and organized as 15 case studies on gender related disaster reduction initiatives. Presented by country, each case study includes a description of the initiative including impacts, results, challenges and potential for replication, as well as a summary of good practices and lessons learned in the process. This document covers numerous aspects of DRR and gender inclusive work, compiled from numerous agencies surveyed.
Towards a Culture of Prevention: Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School Good practices and Lessons Learned
This 156 page document from the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is built upon and organized as 38 case studies under three section headings: Raising Awareness Within School Communities, Building a Culture of Prevention, and Making School Buildings Safer. Presented by country, each case study includes an abstract, a description of the initiative including impacts and replicability, and a summary of good practices and lessons learned in the process. This document covers numerous aspects of DRR, risk and capacity assessment and resilience building, compiled from numerous agencies surveyed.
ECB Risk Reduction Pilots Overview Report
Overview report summarizing key learning and promising practices from the three ECB DRR pilots, setting that learning in the context of other sector initiatives, and suggesting ways forward with risk reduction in other areas. October 2007. Also see individual reports on Indonesia, Guatemala, and Ethiopia located on the ECB DRR publications page.
UN Secretary-General says DRR a pressing need
As part of the International Day for Disaster Reduction on 10 October, Ban Ki-moon urged world leaders and educators to communicate the importance of DRR in community building.
DRR to be integrated into Ghana curriculum
The Minister of State at the Ministry of Interior for Ghana announced, as part of the 10 October International Day for Disaster Reduction, that DRR would be incorporated into the national curriculum.
Nambia and DRR: Impact, evaluation, and development
DRR in Namibia for the 10 October International Day for Disaster Reduction.
Excerpts from ECB3 Ethiopia: Pilot Studies in Disaster Risk Reduction practices and lessons
The ECB Risk Reduction Initiative has been working in Ethiopia since September 2005, documenting good practice in DRR and studying DRR strategies employed by IWG agencies in specific contexts. This document presents a concise summary of highlights from this research, including key lessons and recommendations.
Leaving Disasters Behind
In partnership with IIRR, the ECB Risk Reduction Initiative convened a ‘writeshop’, bringing all the key stakeholders together to develop a handbook on DRR in Ethiopia. ‘Leaving Disasters Behind’ is the result of this unique process. See the link for access to eight chapters from the report.
DRR Easy Access Library
A short-list of disaster risk reduction resources for easy access.
Natural and Human-induced Hazards and Disasters in sub-Saharan Africa
The International Council for Science (ICSU) Regional Office for Africa Science Plan for Natural and Human-induced Hazards and Disasters in sub-Saharan Africa is now available for download in PDF format.
On Better Terms: A Glance at Key Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Concepts
Consultation version. This pocket-sized booklet clarifies a few terms that both the climate change and disaster risk reduction disciplines use but often use differently, so as to avoid possible sources of confusion. The booklet is accompanied by a CD-ROM providing glossaries and sources of conceptual work for climate change adaptation and disaster reduction. This edition is a product of the Working Group on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction (IATF/DR) led by UNDP, IDS and the ISDR secretariat.
Climate Alarm: Disasters increase as climate change bites
Oxfam International Policy Paper. November 2007. Climatic disasters are increasing as temperatures climb and rainfall intensifies. A rise in small- and medium-scale disasters is a particularly worrying trend. Yet even extreme weather need not bring disasters; it is poverty and powerlessness that make people vulnerable. Though more emergency aid is needed, humanitarian response must do more than save lives: it has to link to climate change adaptation and bolster poor people’s livelihoods through social protection and disaster risk reduction approaches.
Tools for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction: Guidance Notes for Development Organizations
Very basic ‘pocket guide’ type system organized as 14 guidance notes covering data collection, poverty reduction strategies, country programming, project cycle management, logical and results-based frameworks, environmental assessment, economic analysis, vulnerability and capacity analysis, sustainable livelihoods approaches, social impact assessment, construction design, building standards and site selection, evaluating disaster risk reduction initiatives, and budget support.
The Good Enough Guide
This pocket-sized guide offers a set of basic guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure program impact in emergency situations. The ‘good enough’ approach emphasizes simple, practical, safe, quick, and easily implemented solutions. It consists of overviews of the purpose behind accountability and impact measurement, and fourteen participation oriented accountability and impact measurement ‘tools’, including how to involve people throughout the project, conducting focus groups and other forms of information gathering processes, observation, use of indicators, setting up complaints mechanisms and how to exit the response.
Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters (HFA)
The World Conference on Disaster Reduction was held from 18 to 22 January 2005 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and adopted the present Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. The Conference provided a unique opportunity to promote a strategic and systematic approach to reducing vulnerabilities and risks to hazards. It underscored the need for, and identified ways of, building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters.
Words Into Action: A Guide for Implementing the Hyogo Framework
The Guide provides advice for Government authorities and other organizations on useful strategies for implementing the HFA. The Guide could also help states to assess where they stand in the implementation process and, by building on existing experience and structure, to identify possible gaps and useful next steps to take.
Feinstein International Center Status Report, December 2007
This report presents an update of the various research projects currently underway in the Center.
Christian Aid and disaster risk reduction lessons learned
Overview of Christian Aid's work in community-based DRR.
Disaster risk reduction: 2007 global review
The Disaster Risk Reduction: 2007 Global Review contrasts and compares contemporary trends and patterns in disaster risk with the progress being made by countries in implementing the priorities for action outlined by the Hyogo Framework.
Consultative Meeting 2007 Final Report Now Available
International Disaster Reduction Conference
