New Zealand: Earthquake - Feb 2011 Updates

This recovery brief provides recovery practitioners with lessons and good practices on financing post-disaster recovery, recovery preparedness and building back better. This consultative edition was...

These case studies accompany the Handbook on Recovery Institutions is to inform the design of effective institutional arrangements for disaster recovery. They describe institutional structures, legal...

Post-disaster recovery processes are often centrally planned and implemented, and they tend to follow a top-down approach that does not engage affected communities in their own recovery process...

Editors Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Professor Richard Haigh University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Emeritus Professor Siri Hettige University of...

Introduction Les tremblements de terre sont des catastrophes présentant des caractéristiques spécifiques. Ils détruisent les infrastructures de transports (par ex. les routes, les ponts) et peuvent...

On December 3rd, CBM, Humanity & Inclusion – Handicap International (HI), and the International Disability Alliance (IDA) mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by releasing a...

Recurrent drought, earthquakes, floods, typhoons, and volcanoes present significant challenges to vulnerable populations in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region. Some countries also face civil...

Drought, earthquakes, floods, typhoons, volcanoes, and civil unrest, compounded by limited government response capacity in some countries, present significant challenges to vulnerable populations in...

This eight-page report discusses the recent series of earthquakes in the Kaikoura region of New Zealand, and the wide geographic and demographic spectrum of impact, including acute stress. Topics...

Recurrent earthquakes, floods, typhoons, and volcanoes present significant challenges to vulnerable populations in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region. Some countries also face civil unrest...

Content The Guidance Note on Recovery: Private Sector draws from the wider body of knowledge on private sector recovery and from documented experiences of past and present disaster planning and...

Effective post-disaster reconstruction programmes This topic guide is a review of the state of play in post-disaster reconstruction. It builds on extensive research, literature and experience to...

By Denis McClean GENEVA, March 4, 2015: Five years after it was devastated by two major earthquakes, Christchurch, New Zealand, is continuing its transformation into one of the world’s most resilient...

Christchurch / Geneva, February 21, 2016: Five years on from the devastating earthquakes in Canterbury, New Zealand, New Zealand Red Cross has reached of one in four Cantabrians, and continues to...

Phil Mercer CHRISTCHURCH— Just over four years ago, New Zealand suffered one of its most catastrophic earthquakes. In February 2011, a magnitude 6.3 tremor shook the city of Christchurch. More than...

By Andy McElroy SUVA, 3 June 2014 – Not one child died at a school or kindergarten during the Christchurch earthquake of February 2011. It was one of the few bright spots from the major disaster that...

A message from the International Federation Dear partners, Welcome to the 7th external edition of Saving Lives Changing Minds. In this edition you will read about the work of the International Red...

Information about the displacement of people after disasters is crucial in determining the scale and impact of the emergency, and is vital for conducting humanitarian needs assessment on the ground...

By Andy McElroy GENEVA, 21 June 2013 - Two countries sitting at opposite ends of the world are emerging as beacons of good practice in terms of innovative public-private partnerships that have been...

By Tricia Holly Purcell GENEVA, 1 May 2013 - When college sophomore Sam Johnson started a Facebook page following the September 2010 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, to rally his peers to...