INTRODUCTION The ASEAN Risk Monitor and Disaster Management Review (ARMOR) is important for several reasons. Firstly, until this point there has been no authoritative publication that provides risk...
In Numbers 10,503.921 mt of food assistance distributed US$ 3.82 m cash-based transfers made US$ 92.06 m six months (May 2019-October 2019) net funding requirements for CSP of which US$ 83.16 m is...
Description of the disaster Heavy downpours which started on 28 August 2018 caused large-scale flooding and landslides to low-lying areas in North and South Hwanghae provinces of the Democratic...
This Emergency Appeal seeks a total of 2.4 million Swiss francs to enable the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to support the Comoros Red Crescent Society...
Rebecca Holmes, Fiona Samuels, Martin Evans, Anita Ghimire and John Twigg Nepal is highly vulnerable to climate-related hazards. While every year Nepal faces predictable seasonal weather patterns...
Natural disasters such as cyclones and heavy rains are becoming increasingly common on the southern shores of Africa. This trend driven by climate change was made visible in Mozambique where Cyclone...
URBAN SETTLEMENTS WORKING GROUP EDITORIAL Affected communities do not perceive their recovery in sectoral terms, but from a holistic, multi-sectoral perspective. Whilst sectoral approaches and...
The week-long Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, hosted by the Swiss government in Geneva and organized by UNDRR, closed today with a warning that not enough countries are putting...
SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the disaster The collapse of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam on 23 July 2018 as a result of Tropical Storm Son Tinh that had made land fall days earlier, has caused...
La Banque mondiale a approuvé aujourd’hui un financement total de 162 millions de dollars pour trois projets visant à améliorer la qualité de l’éducation, l’accès aux soins de santé primaires et la...