Inundaciones: aprendiendo de anteriores operaciones de emergencia y recuperación proporciona una síntesis y una introducción sobre distintas lecciones clave aprendidas de evaluaciones realizadas a...
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Réponse aux Catastrophes Urbaines
Leçons tirées d’opérations de secours et de reconstruction précédentes La réponse aux catastrophes dans un environnement urbain présente un grand nombre de difficultés. Les organisations humanitaires...
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Learning from Recovery after Hurricane Mitch: Experience from Nicaragua - Extended Report
Introduction 1.1 Overview Learning from Recovery after Hurricane Mitch is a review of how Nicaragua has recovered from Hurricane Mitch over the past decade. The focus is on how the assumptions and...
Responding to urban disasters: Learning from previous relief and recovery operations
INTRODUCTION There is a tremendous diversity of urban form, social and political structures, and needs and interests of different communities that characterise urban centres - a diversity that often...
Responding to Earthquakes 2008: Learning from Earthquake Relief and Recovery Operations
The latest lessons paper by ALNAP and Provention provides a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes. It concentrates on issues of particular relevance...
La Réduction des Risques de Catastrophes Naturelles en Afrique de l'Ouest et en Afrique Centrale: Perspectives Locales
Conçue dans le cadre du partenariat entre l'ONG Enda Rup et le secrétariat du consortium ProVention, cette publication bilingue français-anglais a pour objectif de promouvoir, d'une part, des...
The Oslo Policy Forum on Changing the Way We Develop: Dealing with Disasters and Climate Change
This report summarises the discussions and conclusions of the Oslo Policy Forum on Changing the Way We Develop: Dealing with Disasters and Climate Change, held on February 27-29 2008 in Oslo...
Working with the Winds of Change. Towards Strategies for Responding to the Risks Associated with Climate Change and other Hazards
This book provides initial insights from an ongoing ISET programme on disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in South Asia. The study is being undertaken in the Nepal Tarai, Eastern...
ProVention Consortium Newsletter - No. 8
This issue covers a wide range of humanitarian topics including information regarding retrofitting development for disaster resilience, learning from past flood response and relief operations,...
Investigating Urban Risk Accumulation in Six Countries in Africa
This publication introduces the topic of urban risk in Africa and highlights six projects on urban risk accumulation under the umbrella of the African Urban Risk Analysis Network (AURAN) in Accra,...
ProVention Forum 2007 - Making Disaster Risk Reduction Work
The 2007 ProVention Forum focused on the theme of 'Making Disaster Risk Reduction Work'. The Forum was held in Dar es Salaam and brought together more than 100 partners. The aim of this Forum report...
Tools for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction: Guidance Notes for Development Organisations
Since the late 1990s, there has been increasing recognition of this need to 'mainstream' disaster risk reduction into development. A number of development organisations have begun efforts to...
Herramientas para la Integración de la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres: Notas de Orientación para Organizaciones de Desarrollo
Desde finales de la década de 1990 se ha ido tomando de manera creciente conciencia de la necesidad de integrar la reducción del riesgo de desastres en el desarrollo. Son varias las organizaciones de...
ProVention Consortium Annual Report 2006
Introduction In 2006, increased international concern for disaster risk reduction triggered by events in 2004 and 2005 contributed to important changes in the global institutional set-up and...
Disaster Prevention: A Role For Business?
This study was commissioned by the ProVention Consortium to examine the business case for reducing natural disaster risks in developing countries. The study explores a corporate social responsibility...
Disaster Insurance for the Poor? A Review of Microinsurance for Natural Disaster Risks in Developing Countries
This study provides an in-depth review of microinsurance by analysing a range of case studies and examining the benefits and limitations of microinsurance. The results of the study show clear...
Launch of ProVention new website
The ProVention Consortium, a global partnership dedicated to reducing the risks and impacts of natural disasters, launches a new website with information on its activities, links to its partners and...
ProVention Forum 2006 - Incentives For Reducing Risk
The 2006 ProVention Forum focused on the theme of 'Incentives for reducing risk'. The Forum was held in Bangkok and brought together more than 100 partners. The aim of this Forum report is to...
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South Asia Earthquake 2005: Learning from previous recovery operations
This briefing provides a synthesis of key lessons from post-disaster recovery programmes. Intended audiences include: operational decision-makers and relief/recovery programme managers in the South...
ProVention Consortium Annual Report 2005
The year 2005 was marked by a catalogue of devastating natural disasters that captured global attention, most notably the Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the South Asia earthquake...