360 video: Appropriate technology for flood early warning systems in Peru
This 360 degree video allows you to explore the flood early warning systems installed by Practical Action in Chosica, Peru. Open-source electronics and 3D printing are used to create systems that are affordable and appropriate to the communities who need them - meaning life saving information can...
An unforgettable event: a qualitative study of the 1997-98 El Niño in northern Peru
Durante El Niño de 1997-98 , Tumbes, Perú recibió 16 veces el promedio anual de precipitaciones . Este estudio explora cómo los residentes de Tumbes perciben el impacto del fenómeno de El Niño en las necesidades básicas , el transporte, el cuidado de la salud , el empleo y la migración. Cuarenta...
Assessing Social Vulnerability to Flood Hazards in the Dutch Province of Zeeland
The 2007 European Union Floods Directive encouraged member nations to pursue a more integrated view of flood risks and management strategies, taking into account social vulnerabilities of residents. To date, most flood-risk analyses conducted by the Dutch government have focused on physical risk....
Balkan floods of May 2014: challenges facing flood resilience in a former war zone
Major floods that swept through the Balkan region in 2014 have added to the problems facing people still recovering from conflict. Some had only just rebuilt their lives, only to be forced to flee again, this time to escape the floods. The legacy of war makes recovery more difficult and...
Bio-Latrines
This brief looks at the option of using bio-latrines, an on-site dry toilet technology which generates fertilising materials and fuel from the human excreta.
Building resilience in the humanitarian-development nexus: The Community Flood Resilience...
The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) aims to build resilience, globally, by working with multiple stakeholders to trigger rapid transformation in resilience investment, knowledge, policy and innovation. At ground level, the GRP has delivered two challenge rounds, supporting 21 consortia to...
Burundi Floods 2011 DREF Operation
This case study from the IFRC details their Disaster Relief and Emergency Fund Operation in Burundi, 2011. Five days of heavy downpour in the last week of March 2011 had severe consequences for the residents of Ngagara, Cibitoke and Kinama, three impoverished and densely populated suburbs of...
Child poverty, disasters and climate change: investigating relationships and implications over...
This study examines the relationship between natural hazard-related disasters and child and adolescent poverty in India and Kenya. It explores these connections through a lifecycle approach focusing on the incidence of child poverty and longer-term poverty dynamics and wellbeing. The analysis...
Curriculum manual for use with communities affected by natural disasters in Haiti
This mental health training curriculum manual is a collaborative initiative that draws on material from a 10 week disaster mental health intervention developed in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010.
Development of a Simplified Risk Mapping Tool to Facilitate and Optimize Emergency Response to...
The main objective of this initiative is to improve capacity to predict and address future post-disaster shelter recovery needs and issues as well as to manage information about on-going risks after a disaster and their implications for shelter planning. This improved capacity will ensure quick...
Disability inclusion and disaster risk reduction: Overcoming barriers to progress
Disasters have a disproportionate impact on people with disabilities, who are at higher risk of death, injury and loss of property. Although the rights and needs of people with disabilities in disasters are increasingly being addressed through policies, standards and guidelines, much more needs...
DISASTER MANAGEMENT TRAINING CENTRE COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RISK REDUCTION/WASH:Training Manual
This Training Manual aims at providing an overview of DRR/WASH and the basic skills necessary for implementing Community-based DRR/WASH.
Emergency Preparedness: Taking Responsibility for Your Safety,Tips for People with Disabilities...
This Guide is for everyone who has trouble walking, hearing, seeing, breathing, understanding, learning, or responding quickly. These reduced abilities can be temporary or permanent. They can be due to conditions such as allergies, age or disability. Use this Guide with other preparedness guides...
Few, Roger; Ahern, Mike; Matthies, Franziska; Kovats, Sari
Tras el debate preliminar de las cuestiones de riesgo de inundación mundial (capítulo 2), los principales sectores de la informe comprende un análisis pidemiológico de la base de pruebas para los resultados de salud de las inundaciones (capítulo 3) y una revisión de los mecanismos de análisis de...
Flood Resilient Sanitation : West Champaran Gandaki River Basin, India [Info-graphics] (2017)
ICIMOD along with its partners Megh Pyne Abhiyan (MPA) and Water Action (WA), is piloting Eco-San Toilet, or Phaydemand Shauchalaya (Beneficial Toilet) as it is locally known, in Naya Tola Bhishambharpur (NTB) village, Nautan Block in Pashchim (West) Champaran district of Bihar.
Flooding and communicable diseases fact sheet: risk assessment and preventive measures
Presenta los riesgos de las enfermedades transmitidas por el agua en contexto de desastres producidos por inundaciones.
Flooding and communicable diseases fact sheet: risk assessment and preventive measures
Presenta los riesgos de las enfermedades transmitidas por el agua en contexto de desastres producidos por inundaciones.
Flooding Quick Reference Guide
This brochure highlights important health and safety concerns to address before, during, and after major flooding. It is not intended to cover every type of flooding situation.
Floods: climate change and adaptation strategies for human health
Dentro de un proyecto europeo financiado por la Comisión ( EVK2 - 2000-00070 ) , la OMS y la Escuela de Londres de Higiene y Medicina Tropical organizó un taller para identificar los riesgos para la salud asociados a las inundaciones en la Región Europea de la OMS, explorar las proyecciones de...
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