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Odisha, due to its sub-tropical littoral location is vulnerable to various natural disasters like tropical cyclones, floods, storm surges, lightning, tsunami and whirlwinds etc. Changing climatic...
The Disaster Management Reference Handbook Series is intended to provide decision makers, planners, responders and disaster management practitioners with an overview of the disaster management...
This manual describes how to help communities implement disaster risk reduction activities. It was written for development workers and community-based organizations in the Horn of Africa, but...
This handbook gives detail experience from the field in Java in Indonesia, on how the community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) component in the context of IOM post-disaster recovery and...
This is the resource which focuses around urban development planning, gender and social and social justice in a post-disaster recovery and also gender in the urban context.
This Mass Evacuation in Natural Disasters (MEND) guide for Vanuatu provides operational guidance to emergency responders to support the evacuation of communities at risk in the context of volcanic...
This Field Guide has been produced to assist building control officials, engineers, architects, property managers and other building professionals to carry out Rapid Building Assessments during a...
This resource looks at the ways in which private sectors can contribute to disaster prevention and response while focusing on the cooperation as the key factor in achieving the set goals.
The district of Cuttack is vulnerable towards natural disasters like; floods, cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, sunstroke, fire accidents and others. These hazards, natural as well as manmade, pose...
Millions of people have to evacuate their homes every year to avoid danger and seek safety out of harm’s way from potential or actual disasters. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)...