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Archana Patankar I. INTRODUCTION India’s geophysical and climatic conditions make it one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Of the different types of natural disaster, hydrological...

To what degree can vulnerability to extreme weather events be mitigated by access to a rural livelihoods program, particularly with regard to the impacts on women? This paper addresses this question...

By Neeta Lal NEW DELHI, Jul 26 2016 (IPS) - Deepa Kumari, a 36-year-old farmer from Pithoragarh district in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, lives in a one-room tenement in south Delhi’s...

Key messages India is highly vulnerable to natural disasters including cyclones, floods, earthquakes and drought; strengthening people’s resilience to natural disasters is an essential part of the...

Overview The Asia Pacific zone (APZ) of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) comprises the zone office in Kuala Lumpur, four regional offices in Suva (Pacific),...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This technical paper provides evidence-based estimates of the likelihood of disaster-induced displacement in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan...

Executive Summary The impact of cyclone Phailin, that struck Odisha on 12 October 2013, was not limited to Gopalpur, in Ganjam district where it made landfall, but was felt across 17 districts of the...

RESULTS & ACHIEVEMENTS • The World Bank is providing $910 million in funding to scale up risk management efforts in ten states along India’s vast coastline. This is being carried out through the...

Key Note Message Dear friends and colleagues, It is a real delight to welcome and wish all our readers a Very Happy New Year 2015! The work of Sphere India as a coalition body has been able to...

Photo Essay Cyclone Phailin which hit India’s coastal state of Odisha was the strongest storm to hit the country in more than a decade, destroying millions of dollars worth of infrastructure, crops,...

GFDRR supports resilient reconstruction planning and post-disaster assessments, helping more than 50 disaster-affected countries with these approaches since its launch in 2007. Why Resilience Matters...

Ten years after the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami, the investments of coastal governments in India, in systems that alert people early about disasters, are helping save millions of lives. For a...

Greetings from Sphere India We are happy to restart the publication of Sphere India newsletter. Broadly, this issue covers the information of last six months. It includes the key note message,...

Disaster Vulnerability and Donor Opportunity in South and Southeast Asia outlines opportunities for donors of all kinds to support disaster preparedness and risk reduction programs in six of the...

20/10/2014 Last year's Cyclone Phailin was the largest on record in India, affecting some 12 million people and requiring the evacuation of over half a million. Our partners at Oxfam describe the...

The definition of disaster is now all encompassing, which includes not only the events emanating from natural and man-made causes, but even those events which are caused by accident or negligence...

Balanasi is a place where sand is everywhere—in the street, on the trees, underneath the covers. It reveals the closeness of the village with the water: Balanasi sits on an isthmus that straddles...

Results & Achievements Nearly one million coastal residents were relocated in a massive evacuation effort ahead of Cyclone Phailin, partly enabled by the shelters and emergency roadways that were...

Cyclone Phailin devastated the Odisha coast in October 2013. ActionAid India manager Debabrat Patra reports on how local fishing communities have started to rebuild their lives after the disaster. In...