GAR 2011 Home page - Welcome. DesInventar Disaster Information Management System. Haiti Earthquake Appeal Evaluations | Disasters Emergency Committee. Protection and Accountability Study This report [1mb .pdf] assesses the protection work of member agencies and how they dealt with accountability issues during the earthquake response. It was produced by lead authors Eric James and Julie R. Dargis who are independent consultants and was based on research carried out in and around Port au Prince in Haiti in January 2013. The study reached five main conclusions: The report highlight examples of what it regarded as good practice such as: Urban Disasters: Lessons from Haiti This report [3.5mb .pdf] was commissioned to examine the risk of other large urban disasters over the next decade and to guide preparation for future responses.
The report seeks to highlight the lessons learned from good practice and errors made in the response to the Earthquake in Haiti, which took place in the context of widespread poverty and high population density. This video summary presents the ten key lessons from the response in Haiti:
IDRiM Society. Home. International Institute for Environment and Development | policy - research - climate - ecology - urban - economics - sustainability. NARRI: A national platform for disaster risk reduction. Friday, June 17, 2011 M. Mizanur Rahman Although the Americas were gravely affected by natural disasters in 2010, especially in terms of fatalities, the number of disaster victims remained by far the highest in Asia.
As much as 89.2% of global disaster victims in 2010 were from Asia, compared to 5.6% from the Americas (ADSR, 2010). Realising this, six international NGOs in Bangladesh (ActionAid, Concern Universal, Concern Worldwide, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Oxfam-GB and Plan Bangladesh) with two technical partners (HelpAge International and Handicap International) have come up with a consortium named National Alliance for Response and Risk Reduction Initiatives (NARRI) with the financial assistance of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection to have a better output of the intervention by a good coordination among the partners and economies of scale. This initiative will also ensure that there is no overlap or duplication of any activity. UNISDR. Climate Change Report: Natural Disasters In The Future Require Planning Now. * Rising population, development put more in harm's way * Policymakers urged to act in next few decades * Less emphasis on mitigation, more on cutting risk By David Fogarty and Deborah Zabarenko A future on Earth of more extreme weather and rising seas will require better planning for natural disasters to save lives and limit deepening economic losses, the United Nations said on Wednesday in a major report on the effects of climate change.
The U.N. climate panel said all nations will be vulnerable to the expected increase in heat waves, more intense rains and floods and a probable rise in the intensity of droughts. Aimed largely at policymakers, the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes clear nations need to act now, because increasingly extreme weather is already a trend. The need for action has become more acute as a growing human population puts more people and more assets in the path of disaster, raising economic risk, the report said.