Background The UNDP is one of the development organizations which immediately responded to Typhoon Yolanda through assistance to the affected LGUs and communities in debris clearing and waste...
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Asian Disaster Reduction Center: 2017 Annual Report
Foreword The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC), which was established in Kobe in July 1998, will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. Since its founding, ADRC has been focused on promoting...
Analyse des dommages par Photo Interpretation
Approche La méthode ”Baker Achkar Raymond” (“BAR”) a été développée par le Signal Program on Human Security and Technology (Signal Program) au Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), à la demande de...
United Nations Office For Outer Space Affairs: Annual Report 2017
Foreword The year 2017 was an opportunity for the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) to consider both the history and future of human activities in outer space. We joined the...
ESCAP Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Tsunami, Disaster and Climate Preparedness: Strategic Note 2017-2020
1 Introduction Background An effective early warning system is a key component of disaster prevention efforts and resilience building. The costs of early warning systems are generally far outweighed...
Sri Lanka Disaster Management Reference Handbook (December 2017)
Executive Summary Sri Lanka is a lower middle-income country with an estimated total population of 21.2 million people. For decades the country was fraught with civil war, which ended in 2009. The...
Lao PDR Disaster Management Reference Handbook 2017
Executive Summary Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), also referred to as Laos, or Lao, is exposed to natural disasters such as flooding, typhoons, cyclones, drought, and earthquakes. The...
Disaster Management Reference Handbook - Cambodia (2017)
Executive Summary The Kingdom of Cambodia (Cambodia) has a relatively high exposure to natural disasters and is expected to be one of the countries most affected by climate change. Droughts, floods,...
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East Asia and The Pacific - Disaster Risk Reduction, Fiscal Year (FY) 2017
OVERVIEW The 32 countries in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region have varying levels of development and capacity, as well as exposure and vulnerability to natural hazards. Many countries in...
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Myanmar Humanitarian Fund - Annual Report 2017
2017 IN REVIEW HUMANITARIAN CONTEXT Humanitarian situation in 2017 The humanitarian situation in Myanmar remained fragile with the continuation of the protracted humanitarian crises in Rakhine,...
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South Asia Climate Change Risks in Water Management - Climate Risks and Solutions: Adaptation Frameworks for Water Resources Planning, Development and Management in South Asia
Foreword South Asia’s rich human and physical geography are tightly bound to the rivers that radiate out and down from the great Himalayan massif and the extensive Indo-Gangetic basin aquifers...
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Latin America and the Caribbean - Disaster Risk Reduction Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year (FY) 2017
OVERVIEW • Countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region experience a range of natural hazards, including droughts, earthquakes, floods, forest fires, hurricanes, landslides,...
Puerto Rico (The United States of America)
Puerto Rico's Community Health Centers: Struggling to Recover in the Wake of Hurricane Maria
Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Jessica Sharac, MSc, MPH and Sara Rosenbaum, JD Policy Issue Brief #50 This 11-page issue brief details how in the wake of...
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Quinquennial Report 2013 - 2017 of the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau
Executive Summary Over the 2013-2017 period, the Pan American Health Organization, the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization, continued to undertake technical cooperation...
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South Asia - Disaster Risk Reduction Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year (FY) 2017
OVERVIEW • Populations throughout the South Asia region2 face a range of natural hazards, including cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and tsunamis. Demographic changes, rapid...
WFP Philippines Country Brief, December 2017
Highlights The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of US Foreign Development Assistance and the Government of Australia pledged contributions to help WFP continuously...
Mozambique: Year-end Humanitarian Situation Report January – December 2017
Highlights UNICEF/MoH mobile brigade teams screened 503,697 children for acute malnutrition and treated 8,742 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM); UNICEF reached 56,700 people...
WFP Madagascar Country Brief, September 2017
Highlights Certain urban areas of Madagascar (districts of Antananarivo, Tamatave etc.) are experiencing the outbreak of a plague epidemic since August. WFP will implement resilience strengthening...
Haiti: Bulletin Trimestriel d'Information (Juillet – Septembre 2017, No. 3)
SOMMAIRE Visite de 6 Représentants Permanents de Pays membres de la FAO en Haïti Réhabilitation des moyens d’existence de 1.250 pêcheurs dans la Grand’Anse Création officielle du Front Parlementaire...
UNICEF Namibia Year-end Humanitarian Situation Report, January 2017 - December 2017
Highlights In the six northern regions affected by floods in 2017, UNICEFsupported Community Health Workers (CHWs) have reached 4,800 children under five with nutrition screening, of which 1,138...