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Community resilience framework : lessons from the field
Swiss NGO DRR Platform, 2015The report presents the main findings from case studies about resilience assessments that were carried out in five countries through workshops: El Salvador, Bolivia, Haiti, Palestine, and Cambodia. It capitalizes on local knowledge and experience and provides important insights not only on how those most at risk build resilience, but also on how they struggle to overcome the barriers that are imposed on them by their natural, socio-political and economic environments. It highlights the range of expertise and commitment for promoting resilience through disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate ...
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Available online: http://preventionweb.net/go/43886
Published by: Swiss NGO DRR Platform ; 2015
The report presents the main findings from case studies about resilience assessments that were carried out in five countries through workshops: El Salvador, Bolivia, Haiti, Palestine, and Cambodia. It capitalizes on local knowledge and experience and provides important insights not only on how those most at risk build resilience, but also on how they struggle to overcome the barriers that are imposed on them by their natural, socio-political and economic environments. It highlights the range of expertise and commitment for promoting resilience through disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adapation (CCA) measures among Platform members and outlines some of their ongoing and planned work
The case studies utilize a resilience framework and a methodology aimed at assessing resilience at the community level developed by Swiss NGO DRR Platform. In order to understand what makes a community resilient and how individual, collective and contextual factors affect resilience building, its main purpose is to capture factors among community members in different stress contexts (fragility and emergency, climate change impacts, sudden hazards), assuming that key characteristics that contribute to resilience building can be identified. These characteristics serve as guidance for future NGO-programming in the field, but also provide inputs to the upcoming policy frameworks and advocate for the importance of local action.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate policies ; Example/ Good practice ; Case/ Case study ; Bolivia, Plurinacional State of ; Cambodia ; Haiti ; Palestinian Authority
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Haïti, ensemble face aux risques
The booklet gives an overview of disaster risk management (DRM) achievements in the period between January 2010 and January 2015 in Haiti, one of the countries in the world that is most vulnerable to disasters. It presents accomplishments (i) in mainstreaming DRM in the reconstruction work after the 2010 earthquake, (ii) in stronger coordination between stakeholders (the government, NGOs, international donor agencies, etc.), (iii) in improvements in identifying, assessing and monitoring disaster risks, including the use of mapping and spatial technologies, and (iv) in increasing resilience wit ...
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Available online: http://www.ht.undp.org/content/dam/haiti/docs/Prevention%20des%20crises/UNDP-HT- [...]
Published by: PNUE ; 2014
The booklet gives an overview of disaster risk management (DRM) achievements in the period between January 2010 and January 2015 in Haiti, one of the countries in the world that is most vulnerable to disasters. It presents accomplishments (i) in mainstreaming DRM in the reconstruction work after the 2010 earthquake, (ii) in stronger coordination between stakeholders (the government, NGOs, international donor agencies, etc.), (iii) in improvements in identifying, assessing and monitoring disaster risks, including the use of mapping and spatial technologies, and (iv) in increasing resilience with the help of innovation and education initiatives on awareness-raising, capacity building, and disaster prevention initiatives.
Language(s): French; Other Languages: English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Capacity development ; Hazard risk assessment or analysis ; Haiti
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Haiti, facing risks together: achievements in disaster risk management since 2010
The booklet gives an overview of disaster risk management (DRM) achievements in the period between January 2010 and January 2015 in Haiti, one of the countries in the world that is most vulnerable to disasters. It presents accomplishments (i) in mainstreaming DRM in the reconstruction work after the 2010 earthquake, (ii) in stronger coordination between stakeholders (the government, NGOs, international donor agencies, etc.), (iii) in improvements in identifying, assessing and monitoring disaster risks, including the use of mapping and spatial technologies, and (iv) in increasing resilience wit ...
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Available online: http://www.ht.undp.org/content/dam/haiti/docs/Prevention%20des%20crises/UNDP-HT- [...]
The booklet gives an overview of disaster risk management (DRM) achievements in the period between January 2010 and January 2015 in Haiti, one of the countries in the world that is most vulnerable to disasters. It presents accomplishments (i) in mainstreaming DRM in the reconstruction work after the 2010 earthquake, (ii) in stronger coordination between stakeholders (the government, NGOs, international donor agencies, etc.), (iii) in improvements in identifying, assessing and monitoring disaster risks, including the use of mapping and spatial technologies, and (iv) in increasing resilience with the help of innovation and education initiatives on awareness-raising, capacity building, and disaster prevention initiatives.
Language(s): English; Other Languages: French
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Capacity development ; Hazard risk assessment or analysis ; Haiti
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The year of recurring disasters: a review of natural disasters in 2012
This report examines four topics: (i) disasters in 2012, with a focus on recurring disasters; (ii) the role of regional organizations in disaster risk management; (iii) wildfires; and (iv) the important role of women in disaster risk management. It highlights the value given by governments and other actors in working together to prevent disasters and, to a lesser extent, to respond to disasters occurring in the region. It also features the development of strong regional initiatives and different mechanisms for encouraging collaboration, including frameworks for disaster risk reduction, regiona ...
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Available online: https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-year-of-recurring-disasters-a-review-of-n [...]
Published by: Brookings Institution, the ; 2013
This report examines four topics: (i) disasters in 2012, with a focus on recurring disasters; (ii) the role of regional organizations in disaster risk management; (iii) wildfires; and (iv) the important role of women in disaster risk management. It highlights the value given by governments and other actors in working together to prevent disasters and, to a lesser extent, to respond to disasters occurring in the region. It also features the development of strong regional initiatives and different mechanisms for encouraging collaboration, including frameworks for disaster risk reduction, regional military protocols, joint training exercises and regional insurance schemes.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free), Hard copyTags: Natural hazards ; Disaster Risk Financing, Disaster risk transfer ; Food Safety ; Region VI - Europe ; Bangladesh ; Chad ; China ; Gambia ; Guatemala ; Haiti ; India ; Iran, Islamic Republic of ; Madagascar ; Mali ; Mauritania ; Niger ; Pakistan ; Peru ; Philippines ; Russian Federation ; Senegal ; United States of America
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Open data for resilience in the Caribbean: In Insights in DRM, issue 1 (September 2013)
World Bank, 2013This issue asserts that data is essential to inform decisions aimed at reducing disaster risk and presents examples of interventions and outcomes in Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Haiti, and Belize aimed at fostering a culture of informed decision-making. Governments across the Caribbean region are implementing new technologies and data-management practices, engaging in regional communities, and piloting multi-sector investment strategies to address disaster and climate change risk. It highlights the OpenDRI tools and technologies, and open source tools, such as GeoNod ...
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Available online: http://go.worldbank.org/3TCSSXJOJ0
Published by: World Bank ; 2013
This issue asserts that data is essential to inform decisions aimed at reducing disaster risk and presents examples of interventions and outcomes in Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Haiti, and Belize aimed at fostering a culture of informed decision-making. Governments across the Caribbean region are implementing new technologies and data-management practices, engaging in regional communities, and piloting multi-sector investment strategies to address disaster and climate change risk. It highlights the OpenDRI tools and technologies, and open source tools, such as GeoNode, OpenStreetMap (OSM), Quantum GIS, Open Data Tool Kit (ODK), designed to promote collaboration and link the use of geospatial data to specific decision-making processes such as risk analysis.
Notes: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Disaster Risk Management in Latin America & the Caribbean
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate change ; Information management ; Geographical Information System (GIS) ; Mapping ; Space ; Belize ; Haiti ; Saint Lucia ; Trinidad and Tobago ; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ; Grenada
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Disaster risk reduction and livelihoods
FIC, 2013This study seeks to improve the overall knowledge of the relationship between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and livelihood strategies, to improve the understanding and gaps in knowledge, practice, and policy, and to improve the impact of donor-funded DRR programs carried out by implementing agencies. The report is organized as follows: (i) a comprehensive literature review on existing DRR practices is included, identifying gaps that should be explored in future research; (ii) the Haiti case study explores financial resilience in urban settings; (iii) the Nepal case study looks at traditional D ...Permalink![]()
Séisme en Haïti: bilan et Regards sur trois ans d'actions
CRF, 2013Ce rapport présente le bilan de l’action humanitaire en faveur des victimes du terrible séisme qui a dévasté Haïti et sa capitale 12 janvier 2010. Après trois ans d’actions sans relâche en Haïti, la Croix-Rouge française est convaincue qu’il faut prendre en considération l'ensemble des vulnérabilités du pays et prône une mobilisation constante pour enrayer l’enchainement régulier de catastrophes, en luttant contre la pauvreté et en renforçant les capacités des acteurs locaux. Au travers de ce rapport, la Croix-Rouge s'engage à poursuivre ses efforts pour renforcer la résilience des populations ...Permalink![]()
Fast facts: Disaster risk reduction and recovery
UNDP, 2012This document examines UNDP's initiatives in helping develop the capacity of governments in over 60 countries to respond to disasters and mitigate the risk they pose. It presents UNDP's role in preparing disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies, training communities in disaster resilience, and integrating DRR strategies into national development plans.Permalink![]()
Fragile States 2013: Resource flows and trends in fragile states
By 2015, half of the world’s people living on less than USD 1.25 a day will be in fragile states. While poverty has decreased globally, progress on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 is slower in fragile states than in other developing countries. Fragile states are also off-track to meet the rest of the MDGs by 2015.
Fragile situations became a central concern of the international development and security agenda in the 1990s. Since then, powerful forces have been influencing the causes and manifestations of fragility, including the combination of democratic aspirations, new te ...Permalink![]()
Climate vulnerability monitor
DARA, 2012The Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2nd Edition reveals that climate change has already held back global development and inaction is a leading global cause of death. Harm is most acute for poor and vulnerable groups but no country is spared either the costs of inaction or the benefits of an alternative path.
Commissioned by the world’s most vulnerable countries and backed by high-level and technical panels, the new Monitor estimates human and economic impacts of climate change and the carbon economy for 184 countries in 2010 and 2030, across 34 indicators.PermalinkPermalink![]()
Los servicios climáticos pueden invertir la espiral descendente. Caso práctico: Haití
Los servicios climáticos son fundamentales para respaldar el esfuerzo de Haití de reconstruir el país, tras las devastadoras consecuencias del terremoto que tuvo lugar a principios de este año.Permalink![]()
Comprendre les tremblements de terre
Sciences au sud, 57. Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), 2011Au Pérou (Pisco) en 2007, au Chili (Maule) et en Haïti (Port-au-Prince) en 2010, de forts à très forts séismes ont ébranlé des régions entières, faisant de très nombreuses victimes et produisant d’énormes dégâts au bâti et aux infrastructures. Ces tremblements de terre résultent des déplacements relatifs des plaques formant la croûte terrestre mais restent à ce jour impossibles à prévoir. Les chercheurs de l’IRD, leurs collègues des universités (Grenoble, Nice, Paris…), écoles et grands établissements (ENS, IPGP) et d’autres organismes de recherche (CNRS/INSU, Ifremer) et leurs partenaires des ...PermalinkPermalink![]()
Report of the United Nations in Haiti 2010 : situation, Challenges and Outlook
United Nations, 2011This report (available in English and French), summarizes the efforts undertaken by the United Nations system and its partners, in support to the Haitian people and their government, to answer the multiple humanitarian crises, to accompany the electoral calendar and to advance on the road to recovery.Permalink