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This policy brief provides Philippine stakeholders of jails/prisons management and disaster risk reduction with tangible evidence on how jails, prisons as well as inmates and prisoners deal with natural hazards and disasters. This set of evidence should be useful to inform policy and practice of disaster risk reduction and management at local, including...

Drought is one of the main challenges to the implementation of the Sendai Framework in Asia. The 2016 drought in India has affected close to 330 million people from 10 states. Bad monsoons and weak policies around water security have further compounded the problem and precipitated a crisis. In reality, with close to 60% of the population...

The United Nations Population Fund has prepositioned life-saving Reproductive Health (RH) Kits and Dignity Kits in various regions and districts of Nepal. Limited access to reproductive health and gender-based violence services puts the lives of many women and babies at high risk during emergencies. Thus access to information and basic hygiene supplies...

The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM) invites original submissions from contributors of all backgrounds within the Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (DMHA) community, for its Liaison Magazine. The theme for the Winter 2017 issue is Disaster Preparedness and the deadline for first drafts is...

Obama administration emergency managers are proposing to toughen the requirements for federally funded construction projects to try to make flood-prone communities more resilient to the increased risks expected from global warming. The Federal Emergency Management proposed the rules, which would require federally funded construction to take place on...

The BRICS members - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - are to set up a task force on disaster management to improve cooperation and share information and knowledge. The second meeting of BRICS ministers organised in India focuses on "Flood Risk Management" and "Forecasting of Extreme Weather Events in the context of Changing...

As part of the Windhoek Declaration, which includes the Strategic Framework to combat drought in Africa that was adopted last Thursday, the conference opted to seek other ways of funding drought emergencies.

With more than 100 public health emergencies occurring each year in the African Region, Health Ministers have agreed to implement some key actions to ensure that people in Africa and beyond are better protected. Disasters account for 18% of the annual health emergencies. Establishing resilient health systems to the shock of disasters and damage from...

This brief draws examples from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia and details how gender is or is not an integral element of adaptation practices and policies. The document offers recommendations for how greater inclusion can be achieved, in a context where policy approaches aimed at strengthening...

Between the devastation of the South Ferry Station and the nine flooded tunnels, the metro system sustained billions of dollars in damage from Superstorm Sandy. Since then, the transit authority has been spending disaster funds to repair and harden its train yards and subway tunnels - and testing out space-age flood barriers and tunnel plugs to waterproof...