Disaster Risk Reduction documents
Best practices & case studies
| Publisher | Title | Scope | Subject | Year | |||
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| CADRI | Basics of Capacity Development for Disaster Risk Reduction View Online | Download |
Global | Capacity development | 2011 | 1.3M | ENG | |
| CaPRI | Resilience Potential: Assessing Jamaica's "Bounce-Back" from Hurricane Dean View Online | Download |
Jamaica | Recovery, CDM, Economics | 2008 | 933K | ENG | |
| CDERA | The 2004 hurricane season in the caribbean. A review of disaster preparedness and response arrangements View Online | Download |
Regional | EWS, Recovery, Response | 2004 | 154K | ENG | |
| CDERA | Revisión institucional de los Mecanismos de Manejo de Desastres en Bahamas, Santa Lucia y las Islas Turks y Caicos View Online | Download |
Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Turks and Caicos | 2007 | 2.6M | ESP | ||
| COE | Dominican Republic - Lessons learned from the 2008 hurricane season View Online | Download |
Dominican Republic | EWS, CDM | 2008 | 1.2M | ENG | |
| CRMI | BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS - Integration of Disaster Risk Management into the Development Agenda View Online | Download |
British Virgin Islands | CDM, Development, SIDS | 2005 | 712K | ENG | |
| CRMI | ISLAS VÍRGENES BRITÁNICAS Integración de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres en la Agenda de Desarrollo View Online | Download |
British Virgin Islands | CDM, Development, SIDS | 2005 | 2.2M | ESP | |
| CRMI | Sistema Defensa Civil de Cuba - Mejores prácticas en gestion de riesgo View Online | Download |
Cuba | CDM, Civil defense | 2007 | 524K | ESP | |
| CRMI | Centros de gestión para la reducción de riesgos a nivel territorial en municipios y provincias - Mejores prácticas en gestion de riesgo View Online | Download |
Cuba | Civil defense, CDM | 2007 | 888K | ESP | |
| CRMI | Rehabilitacion del habitat desde una perspectiva de desarrollo sostenible - Lecciones aprendidas y sistematización de buenas prácticas. View Online | Download |
Cuba | Housing | 2009 | 1.4M | ESP | |
| CRMI | Rehabilitation de l'habitat dans une perspective de developpement durable - Leçons apprises et systématisations de bonnes pratiques View Online | Download |
Cuba | Housing | 2009 | 1.7M | FRA | |
| CRMI | Ciudad de la Habana: Evaluación de Riesgos por Penetraciones del Mar en los Municipios Costeros - Mejores prácticas en gestion de riesgo View Online | Download |
Cuba | Risk assessment | 2007 | 2.7M | ESP | |
| CRMI | Post-disaster Early Recovery in a Caribbean Small Island Developing State The Case of Hurricane Ivan in Grenada (2004): Best Practices and Lessons Learned View Online | Download |
Grenada | Recovery, SIDS | 2007 | 581K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Reforestación con bambú como alternativa ecológica para la producción sostenible de materiales de construcción y viviendas (Bambú-biomasa) View Online | Download |
Cuba | Housing | 2006 | 2.8M | ESP | |
| CRMI | Reforestation avec bambou en tant qu'alternative écologique pour la production soutenable de matériaux de construction et logements (Bambou-biomasse) View Online | Download |
Cuba | Housing | 2006 | 2.8M | FRA | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. CASE STUDY: Agriculture in indigenous communities in Guyana View Online | Download |
Guyana | Gender, Adaptation, Agriculture | 2009 | 1.8M | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. CASE STUDY: Water and sanitation in rural communities in Jamaica View Online | Download |
Jamaica | Gender, Adaptation, Sanitation | 2009 | 1M | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. CASE STUDY: Agriculture and housing in Suriname View Online | Download |
Suriname | Gender, Adaptation, Agriculture, Housing | 2009 | 805K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. Executive Summary View Online | Download |
Regional | Gender, CDM, Adaptation, Agriculture, Housing, Sanitation | 2009 | 940K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Cuba - Risk Reduction Management Centres View Online | Download |
Cuba | Risk Reduction, Preparedness, Capacity Development | 2010 | 2.6M | ENG | |
| FAO | Good practice examples for disaster risk reduction in
Cuban Agriculture View Online | Download |
Cuba | Risk Reduction, Agriculture | 2008 | 1.3M | ENG | |
| IASC | Women, Girls, Boys and men: different needs - equal opportunities. Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action View Online | Download |
Global | Gender, CDM, Vulnerability, Recovery | 2006 | 3.1M | ENG | |
| ISDR | Gender Perspective: Working Together for Disaster Risk Reduction. Good Practices and Lessons Learned View Online | Download |
Global | Gender, Recovery | 2007 | 788K | ENG | |
| ISDR | Gender Perspectives: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into Climate Change Adaptation View Online | Download |
Global | Climate Change, Risk Reduction, Gender, Development | 2008 | 3.3M | ENG | |
| ISDR | Early Warning Practices can Save Lives: Selected Examples View Online | Download |
Global | EWS, Recovery | 2010 | 3.5M | ENG | |
| ODPEM | HURRICANE IVAN - JAMAICA An Assessment of The National Response September 3-10, 2004 View Online | Download |
Jamaica | Recovery, CDM, Economics | 2005 | 307K | ENG | |
| OXFAM | CUBA, Paradigma en la reducción de riesgo de desastres View Online | Download |
Cuba | Civil defense, CDM | 2008 | 423K | ESP | |
| OXFAM | Review and Systematization of Disaster Preparedness Experiences in Urban Areas In the Caribbean Region View Online | Download |
Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guyana | Urban, Resilience, Preparedness, Gender equity | 2010 | 1.7M | ENG | |
| OXFAM America | Weathering the Storm: Lessons in Risk Reduction from Cuba View Online | Download |
Cuba | Civil defense, CDM | 2004 | 916K | ENG | |
| OXFAM America | Superando la tormenta: lecciones de reducción de riesgo en Cuba View Online | Download |
Cuba | Civil defense, CDM | 2004 | 940K | ESP | |
| UNDP | Commonwealth of the Bahamas - National hurricane response 2004 - report on findings View Online | Download |
Bahamas | Assessment, Response, CDM, Recovery | 2004 | 100K | ENG | |
| UNDP | Case Study - Towards Consensus and Cooperation for Mainstreaming Disaster Reduction into Development : A Case Study from the Caribbean View Online | Download |
Regional | CDM | 2004 | 85K | ENG | |
| UNDP | Case Study - Risk Reduction in Havana's Costal Settlements: A Case Study from Cuba View Online | Download |
Cuba | Civil defense, CDM | 2004 | 86K | ENG | |
| UNDP | El País a la Vista Pública: Algunas Lecciones de la Respuesta Pos-Desastre - Surinam View Online | Download |
Suriname | Response | 2007 | 55K | ESP | |
| UNDP | Country in the Spotlight: Some Lessons from Post-Disaster Response - Suriname View Online | Download |
Suriname | Response | 2007 | 46K | ENG | |
| UNICEF | Children and Disaster Risk Reduction: Taking stock and moving forward View Online | Download |
Global | Children, Capacity development, Education | 2009 | 4.3M | ENG | |
| UN-INSTRAW | Salud sexual y reproductiva y violencia en personas vulnerables: La tormenta Noel en República Dominicana View Online | Download |
Dominican Republic | Gender, Development, Vulnerability | 2008 | 1.3M | ESP | |
| UR Forum | Understanding Risk: Innovation in Disaster Risk Assessment - Proceeds from the 2010 UR Forum View Online | Download |
Global | Risk Reduction, Assessment, Community-based approach, Climate Risk modeling, Communication | 2010 | 4.5M | ENG | |
| Varios autores | Memoria Del Taller Internacional Lecciones Aprendidas de la Gestión del Riesgo en Procesos de Planificación e Inversión para el Desarrollo View Online | Download |
Regional | DRM, Development | 2010 | 8.9M | ESP |
Frameworks and policies
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| ACS | THE HAVANA CONSENSUS Adopted by the Seminar Workshop for National Authorities: Risk Management Policies, Systems and Experiences in the Caribbean. View Online | Download |
Regional | Policy | 2005 | 48K | ENG | |
| ACS | CONSENSO DE LA HABANA Aprobado en el Seminario Taller para Autoridades Nacionales: Políticas, Sistemas y Experiencias Exitosas en Gestión de Riesgo en el Caribe View Online | Download |
Regional | Policy | 2005 | 63K | ESP | |
| CDERA | Second World Conference on Disaster Reduction - Caribbean Community Regional Programme Framework 2005-2015 View Online | Download |
Regional | 2005 | 1.4M | ENG | ||
| CDERA | The Kingston Declaration 2005 View Online | Download |
Regional | CDM, Response, Policy | 2005 | 21K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Caribbean implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action - Mid-term review View Online | Download |
Regional | Hyogo, Risk Reduction | 2011 | 1.9M | ENG | |
| ISDR | Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters View Online | Download |
Global | Policy | 2005 | 403K | ENG | |
| ISDR | Making Disaster Risk Reduction Gender-Sensitive. Policy and Practical Guidelines View Online | Download |
Global | Risk Reduction, Gender mainstreaming, Policy | 2009 | 3.1M | ENG | |
| ISDR | Hyogo Framework For Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. Mid-Term Review 2010-2011 View Online | Download |
Global | Hyogo, Risk Reduction | 2011 | 1.3M | ENG | |
| UNDP | UNDP's Eight-Point Agenda for Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality in Crisis Prevention and Recovery View Online | Download |
Global | Gender, Development, Policy | 2008 | 37K | ENG | |
| UNDP | Formulation and execution of a strategic framework for the reduction of vulnerabilities and disaster preparedness 2004 - 2008 in the Dominican Republic View Online | Download |
Dominican Republic | Preparedness, Vulnerability, Recovery | 2005 | 31K | ENG |
Technical documents and guidebooks
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| ABACUS for Communities | Jamaica: Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness and Response: A Community Participation Approach View Online | Download |
Jamaica | Disaster prevention, Disaster preparedness, Mitigation, Response | 2010 | 656K | ENG | |
| Benfield Hazard Research Centre | An operational framework for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction View Online | Download |
2003 | 279K | ENG | |||
| Castellanos Abella / Van Westen | Generation of a landslide risk index map for Cuba using spatial multi-criteria evaluation View Online | Download |
Cuba | Vulnerability, Hazard, Landslides | 2007 | 757K | ENG | |
| CBDRM Training and Learning Circle | Integrating Gender into Community Based Disaster Risk Management - Training Manual View Online | Download |
Global | CDM, Gender, Capacity Development | 2010 | 3.8M | ENG | |
| CDERA | Survey on the Status of Disaster Preparedness in Grenada View Online | Download |
Grenada | Evaluation, Preparedness | 2005 | 740K | ENG | |
| Centro Técnico de la Vivienda y el Urbanismo | Catálogo de tecnologías que reducen la vulnerabilidad de la vivienda ante eventos meteorológicos View Online | Download |
Regional | Housing | 2006 | 12.1M | ESP | |
| Centro Técnico de la Vivienda y el Urbanismo | Catalogue of technologies that reduce house vulnerability in the face of meteorological events View Online | Download |
Regional | Housing | 2006 | 11.1M | ENG | |
| CEPAL | A methodological approach to gender analysis in natural disaster assessment: a guide for the Caribbean View Online | Download |
Regional | Gender, Assessment | 2004 | 322K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. COUNTRY ASSESSMENT: Belize View Online | Download |
Belize | Gender, CDM, Adaptation | 2009 | 960K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. COUNTRY ASSESSMENT: Commonwealth of Dominica View Online | Download |
Dominica | Gender, CDM, Adaptation | 2009 | 720K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. COUNTRY ASSESSMENT: Dominican Republic View Online | Download |
Dominican Republic | Gender, CDM, Adaptation | 2009 | 980K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. COUNTRY ASSESSMENT: Guyana View Online | Download |
Guyana | Gender, CDM, Adaptation | 2009 | 890K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. COUNTRY ASSESSMENT: Jamaica View Online | Download |
Jamaica | Gender, CDM, Adaptation | 2009 | 840K | ENG | |
| DARA | Risk Reduction Index: Analysis of the Capacities and Conditions for Disaster Risk Reduction View Online | Download |
Regional | Capacity development | 2011 | 3.5M | ENG | |
| DFID | Disaster risk reduction: a development concern View Online | Download |
Global | Development | 2005 | 140K | ENG | |
| EIRD | Diagnóstico sobre la Situación de la República Dominicana en cuanto a la reducción de riesgos a desastres View Online | Download |
Dominican Republic | Risk Reduction, Preparedness, Capacity Development | 2010 | 3.8M | ESP | |
| GTZ | Climate Proofing for Development - Adapting to Climate Change, Reducing Risk View Online | Download |
Global | 2010 | 1.8M | ENG | ||
| IASC | Inter-agency contingency planning guidelines for humanitarian assistance View Online | Download |
Global | Preparedness, Response | 2007 | 850K | ENG | |
| ICHARM | Tsunami Hazard Mapping in Developing Countries An effective way of raising awareness for tsunami disaster risk reduction View Online | Download |
Global | Hazard map, Tsunami, Awareness, Developing countries | 2010 | 4.8M | ENG | |
| Inter-Research Science Center | Climate information requirements for community-level risk management and adaptation View Online | Download |
Global | CRM, Risk assessment | 2011 | 130K | ENG | |
| IRP | Learning from Disaster Recovery - Guidance for Decision Makers View Online | Download |
Global | Policy, Recovery | 2006 | 720K | ENG | |
| IUCN | Integrating environmental safeguards into flood relief, response and recovery View Online | Download |
Global | Relief, Recovery, Environment | 2010 | 740K | ENG | |
| OCHA | Tools to support implementation of OCHA's policy on gender equality View Online | Download |
Global | Gender, Policy, DRR | 2005 | 580K | ENG | |
| ODI | Responding to a changing climate - Exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity (Working paper) View Online | Download |
Global | Climate change, Development, Adaptive capacity | 2010 | 870K | ENG | |
| OXFAM, NIRAPAD | Women Leadership in Disaster Risk Management - Handbook View Online | Download |
Global | Capacity development, Early warning, Recovery | 2011 | 6.4M | ENG | |
| UNDP | Needs Assessment for Capacity Building in Risk Management and Vulnerability Reduction in the Caribbean Islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, and Grenada View Online | Download |
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada | CDM, Vulnerability assessment, SIDS | 2004 | 1.4M | ENG | |
| UNDP | A Climate Risk Management Approach to Disaster Reduction and Adaptation to Climate Change View Online | Download |
Regional | CDM, Mitigation, Climate Change | 2002 | 4.1M | ENG | |
| UNDP | Un Enfoque de Manejo del Riesgo Climático para la Reducción de Desastres y Adaptación al Cambio Climático View Online | Download |
Regional | CDM, Mitigation, Climate Change | 2002 | 1.5M | ESP | |
| UNDP | Formulacion y ejecucion de un marco estrategico para la reduccion de vulnerabilidades y preparativos para desastres 2004 - 2008 en República Dominicana View Online | Download |
Dominican Republic | Preparedness, Vulnerability, Recovery | 2005 | 33K | ESP | |
| UNDP | Quantification and Magnitude of Losses and Damages Resulting from the Impacts of Climate Change: Modelling the Transformational Impacts and Costs of Sea Level Rise in the Caribbean (Summary Document) View Online | Download |
Regional | Climate change, Economics | 2010 | 3.9M | ENG | |
| UNEP | Disaster risk management for coastal tourism destinations responding to climate change - A practical guide for decision makers View Online | Download |
Regional | Risk Reduction, Tourism, Climate Change, Preparedness | 2008 | 3.1M | ENG | |
| Wharton University | The Costs and Benefits of Reducing Risk from Natural Hazards to Residential Structures in Developing Countries - Working paper View Online | Download |
Global | Housing, Economics, Development | 2011 | 500K | ENG | |
| World Bank | Using high resolution satellite data for the identification of urban natural disaster risk View Online | Download |
Global | GIS, Capacity development, Early warning, Urban risk | 2011 | 2.8M | ENG |
Reports and statements
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| CRED | Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2010 View Online | Download |
Global | Statistics | 2011 | 4.3M | ENG | |
| OXFAM | Time's Bitter Flood - Trends in the number of reported natural disasters View Online | Download |
Global | Statistics | 2011 | 791K | ENG | |
| The Order of St. John International | Can one day change the habits for thousands in the Caribbean? - A review of the one day Disaster Preparedness and First Aid training programme after Hurricane Tomas View Online | Download |
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia | Capacity development, Preparedness, Community-based DRR | 2011 | 168K | ENG | |
| UN | Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction - Report of the Secretary-General View Online | Download |
Global | 2010 | 124K | ENG | ||
| UN | Role of information and communications technology in the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action View Online | Download |
Global | Information and communications technology, CDM | 2010 | 156K | ENG | |
| UNDP, BCPR | Report on Workshop for the Strengthening of Capacities for Post-Disaster Recovery in Central America and the Caribbean View Online | Download |
Regional | Recovery, Development | 2007 | 416K | ENG | |
| UNISDR | Beijing Declaration for Action View Online | Download |
Global | Climate Change, Risk Reduction, Gender | 2009 | 28K | ENG | |
| UNISDR | Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2011 - Summary and main findings View Online | Download |
Global | CRM, Emerging risks, Governance, Development | 2011 | 4.8M | ENG | |
| UNISDR | Aligning Regional and Global Disaster Risk Reduction Agendas View Online | Download |
Global | Capacity development, Climate change, Governance, Economics, Health, Education | 2011 | 3.5M | ENG |
Additional information
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| Castro G., Cecilia | La inequidad de género en la gestión integral del riesgo de desastre. Un acercamiento View Online | Download |
Gender, Risk management | 2005 | 1.5M | ESP | ||
| CRMI | Mainstreaming Gender in Disaster Risk Management View Online | Download |
Regional | Gender, CDM | 2009 | 90K | ENG | |
| GDN | 2008 A Year of Disasters A Network for Change View Online | Download |
Gender | 2008 | 265K | ENG | ||
| IOM | Disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and environmental migration View Online | Download |
Global | Climate change, Disaster reduction, Migration | 2010 | 3.9M | ENG | |
| IRP | Experience of Post Disaster Recovery from Gender Perspective - Shifting from Vulnerabilities to Capacities View Online | Download |
Global | Gender, Recovery, Vulnerability | 2009 | 400K | ENG | |
| ISDR | Strengthening climate change adaptation through effective disaster risk reduction - Briefing note 03 View Online | Download |
Global | Risk reduction, Climate change, Adaptation, Development | 2010 | 1.3M | ENG | |
| Lewis, James | The creation of cultures of risk - Political and commercial decisions as causes of vulnerability for others View Online | Download |
Global | Vulnerability, Risk Reducion, Recovery | 2008 | 80K | ENG | |
| SCR | Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management in brief View Online | Download |
Adaptation, Vulnerability, Development, CDM | 2010 | 416K | ENG | ||
| UNDP | UNDP Brief 1 - Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery View Online | Download |
Global | Risk Reduction | 2010 | 390K | ENG | |
| UNDP | UNDP Brief 2 - Disaster Risk Assessment View Online | Download |
Global | Risk Assessment | 2010 | 320K | ENG | |
| UNDP | UNDP Brief 3 - Climate Risk Management View Online | Download |
Global | Climate Risk Management | 2010 | 420K | ENG | |
| UNDP | UNDP Brief 4 - Disaster Risk Reduction, Governance and Mainstreaming View Online | Download |
Global | Risk Reduction, Governance | 2010 | 400K | ENG | |
| UNDP | UNDP Brief 5 - Capacity Development for Disaster Risk Reduction View Online | Download |
Global | Capacity development | 2010 | 404K | ENG | |
| UNDP | UNDP Brief 6 - Urban Risk Management View Online | Download |
Global | Urban Development | 2010 | 450K | ENG | |
| UNDP | UNDP Brief 7 - Gender and Disasters View Online | Download |
Global | Gender | 2010 | 484K | ENG | |
| UNDP, BCPR | Reducing disaster risk: a challenge for development View Online | Download |
Global | Development | 2004 | 71K | ENG |
Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean
