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This brochure presents a summary of the Zambian disaster management Act no 13, which was assented to on the 13th April 2010.

The UNDP Comoros office through the project “Integration of disaster risk reduction into policies to reduce poverty in the Union of the Comoros” intends to contribute in the development of a mapping of volcanic and seismic hazards, cyclonic, landslides, and floods on all three islands (Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli).

The objective of the mission that the Seine-Saint-Denis General Council carried out in May 2012 had the dual objective of:

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.

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.

In light of national, cross-border, transboundary and regional hazards of various type in Southern Africa, a desk review was undertaken by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in order to enhance the understanding of disaster risk and spaces of vulnerability (i.e.

This document is a revision of the Regional Inter-Agency Standing Committee (RIASCO) Action Plan published in July 2016. It is in support of the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) Regional Appeal for Humanitarian and Recovery Support.

The 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR15), Making Development Sustainable: The Future of Disaster Risk Management, is the fourth in the series coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) in the context of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (HFA).