Disaster Risk Management

The Evaluation of Vulnerability to the Risks of Flooding in the Union of the Comoros is a document that:

Brochure featuring the ADRIFI program in Madagascar.

A sourcebook for secondary schools about Disaster Risk Management. It covers the definition and explanation of several DRM concepts, as well as the description of the DRM legal and institutional framework in Malawi.

The extent to which prevention, coping and adaptation differ from country to country is illustrated by this World Risk Report. With the World Risk Index, it provides an analysis of disaster risks worldwide and indicates which countries are in the greatest need to strengthen measures for coping with and adapting to extreme natural events.

The Country Risk Profiles provide a comprehensive view of hazard, risk and uncertainties for floods and droughts in a changing climate, with projections for the period 2050-2100. The risk assessment considers a large number of possible scenarios, their likelihood, and associated impacts.

The objective of this study is to assess the vulnerability of the population of the Comoros to different hydrometeorological and geological hazards, taking into account the characteristics and specificities of each of the islands of the Union of the Comoros.

This country risk profile for Botswana provides a comprehensive view of hazard, risk and uncertainties for floods and droughts in a changing climate, with projections for the period 2050-2100.

GAR19 provides the first update from countries on progress against the seven targets of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (Sendai Framework): the global guide to understanding and dealing with risk, and places special emphasis on the 2020 Target (e) - Substantially increase the number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020.

This document reports on the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) - European Union (EU) cooperation Programme “Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities”.

This report analyses some of the southern african countries readiness to humanitarian impacts related to their macro-economic conditions, the regional seasonal rainfall forecast, the food, livelihood and nutrition security and the conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo.