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Science for Disaster Risk Management 2020: Acting Today, Protecting Tomorrow
The Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre has produced the "Science for disaster risk management 2020: acting today, protecting tomorrow" report, the second of its series. The report represents a...
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Resilience Building Handbook
Summary of the handbook From the heart of Tanzania to the mountains of Ethiopia to the borders of Bangladesh and Nepal; VSO's resilience programming is rapidly increasing. Volunteers, staff and...
Humanitarian and Country Icons 2018
Following the positive reception of OCHA’s set of 250 public domain humanitarian icons in 2012, the organization is releasing an extended and completely redesigned new collection in 2018 (295 and...
Science for Disaster Risk Management 2017: Knowing Better and Losing Less
The Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre has produced first flagship science report "Science for disaster risk management 2017: knowing better and losing less". This report is the result of the...
Indonesia Country Profile (12-01-17)
Key Figures 258.7 million population (2016 projection) 49.8% Female 50.2% Male 148 million Number of people living in areas prone to a natural disaster US$3,346 Lower middle income GDP per capita...
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Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit Missions in 2015
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) respond to environmental emergencies through the Joint UNEP/OCHA...
2015 disasters in numbers
346 reported disasters 22 773 people dead 98.6 million people affected US$66.5 billion economic damage
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Protected areas as tools for disaster risk reduction: a handbook for practitioners
Advice for disaster risk reduction specialists and protected area managers on how best to use protected area systems as effective buffers, to prevent natural hazards from developing into unnatural...
Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2012: The numbers and trends
Executive Summary In 2012, 357 natural triggered disasters were registered. This was both less than the average annual disaster frequency observed from 2002 to 2011 (394), and represented a decrease...
World: Humanitarian and Country Icons 2012
Humanitarian and Country Icons 2018 are available on this link OCHA adds 500 free humanitarian symbols to communications tools and services The United Nations Office for the Coordination of...
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Health action in crises - annual report 2007
This year, three key developments have influenced WHO's emergency work: 1) the increasing demands from Member States to strengthen WHO's emergency response operations; 2) the implementation of the...
India + 4 more
China: 1.38 billion yuan put into Red Cross relief operations in 2007
In the past year 2007, the Chinese Red Cross put into 1.384 billion yuan in cash and kind put into its relief operations nationwide, which is reveled at the Society's annual board session held in...
Bangladesh + 10 more
As Second Committee takes up sustainable development, Emergency Relief Coordinator voices pessimism about chances of reducing disaster-related losses by 2015
GA/EF/3189 Sixty-second General Assembly Second Committee 15th & 16th Meetings (AM & PM) Joint Inspection Unit Official Cites Lack of Transparency, Accountability in Report on United Nations Response...