This publication outlines good practices, providing practical case studies of successful disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation and mitigation projects implemented by ACT members or their partners around the world. The guide includes 14 case studies, which describe local projects that range from renewable energy to controlling water in areas that have too little (or too much).
Sirens wailed and loudspeakers ordered residents of coastal towns and villages from Indonesia's Aceh province to Sri Lanka to seek safety during an Indian Ocean-wide tsunami practice drill on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka will be among 18 countries around the Indian Ocean Rim which will participate in an ocean-wide tsunami exercise on October 14 to coincide with World Disaster Reduction Day.
This report is the result of the effort to highlight the use of scientific and technical knowledge as an essential foundation for disaster risk reduction, and to make recommendations on key issues and priorities, including ways that specialist scientific and technical information can be more effectively adopted and put into practice.
Within few decades, climate change has quadrupled the number of natural disasters. Especially in Asia, more and more people are affected. Bangladesh is one of the countries where disaster risk reduction works fairly well. And Burma (Myanmar) is trying to enhance the crisis management after the bad experience with cyclone Nargis.
This document presents the achievements of the CDRF project, to enhance community resilience. In particular, it refers to the community owned and managed funding mechanism piloted and evolving to resource innovative solutions by grassroots women
This report provides a scenario of climate change, adaptation options and vulnerability in Nepal. In its fourth assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) depicts the Hindukush-Himalaya, including Nepal, as a
This document reports on a workshop which purpose was to assess the strength and weakness of current initiatives for earthquake risk assessment, mitigation, response and recovery in South Asian region. It looks forward to help developing a roadmap for regional cooperation for a short, medium and long term basis for earthquake risk management in the South Asian region.