Disaster Risk Management

This National Climate Change Policy aims to provide the enabling policy framework to guide Swaziland to address the challenge posed by climate change.

The progress report assesses current national strategic priorities with regard to the implementation of disaster risk reduction actions, and establishes baselines on levels of progress achieved with respect to the implementation of the HFA's five priorities for action.

The plan takes a sustainable approach towards disaster risk reduction outlining immediate actions and recommending long-term interventions.

This policy seeks to provide a well coordinated framework to disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction in Swaziland aligned to national development instruments, regional and international instruments for Disaster Risk Management and Disaster Risk Reduction as well as current and emerging sustainable development challenges such as climate change.

This report was commissioned to examine the status, issues and challenges, strengths and weaknesses of disaster risk assessment (DRA) in Mozambique and to recommend ways of implementing a national risk assessment (NRA) (scope, governance, etc). The approach was of implementing a Systematic Inventory and Evaluation of Risk Assessments, after UNDP/BCPR/GRIP (2010).

This report reviews the availability of data in Mauritius to report against the indicators recommended to measure the global targets of the Sendai Framework, and identify current gaps.

The progress report assesses current national strategic priorities with regard to the implementation of disaster risk reduction actions, and establishes baselines on levels of progress achieved with respect to the implementation of the HFA's five priorities for action.

This report summarizes all activities implemented for Mauritius in the context of the joint UNISDR/ISLANDS project entitled "Strengthening Capacities for Unified Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Through the Facilitation of Risk Transfer and Finance Mechanisms" within the "ISLANDS Programme for Financial Protection against Climatic and Natural Disasters." T

On March 19, 2019, the Government of Malawi, through the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, submitted a formal request to the World Bank for assistance to conduct a Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) of the floods.

This report follows the Building Regulation for Resilience (BRR) Program’s Building Regulatory Capacity Assessment (BRCA) methodology. The Assessment covers three main components: