04 Nov 2014
As this case illustrates, community-led teams can take a lead in response efforts for disasters of international significance, as well as smaller and more local incidents. The Savar incident is such a case: beginning as a local incident, it ha...
Tags: Case Study
25 Nov 2014
One of the main purposes of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies is to mobilize people and resources at community level to improve the lives of the vulnerable. In order to become locally sustainable, branches must expand the types of local resources ...
Tags: Video, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management
16 Jan 2019
This report published by the UNISDR gives an excellent analysis of economic lossess due to disasters. Between 1998 and 2017 climate-related and geophysical disasters killed 1.3 million people and left a further 4.4 billion injured, homeless, displace...
Tags: Report, Post-Disaster Recovery, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management