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Foreword Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Acrony
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CENTRAL REGION, CHILE, FEBRUARY 2010. Building de
A Decade of Progress in Disaster Risk Management
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Abbreviations and Acronyms AMCOMET African Minist
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CHAPTER From Disaster Response to Disaster Risk
As the world’s population grows and urbanizes, an
A Shifting Development Landscape
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A House of Many Rooms Since 2004, the internatio
UNISDR: A Powerful Voice The UN’s Office for Dis
DRM is integral to sustainable development. With
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CHAPTER From Producing to Communicating and Usin
Indonesia: Response to the Tsunami Leads to a Mor
DID YOU KNOW? Coastal flood risk in Indonesia
Voices of Transformation: Decisive Action7
Aceh and Beyond Aceh Province, where almost 130,
A Comprehensive Strategy Informed by better risk
JAKARTA, INDONESIA. Community mapping. Photo cred
Identifying and Communicating Risk With access
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Risk assessments are now commonly used around the
Land Planning and Infrastructure Yemen To inform
VENICE, ITALY, 2016. Delegates at the Understandi
The Understanding Risk Community The Understandi
CAN THO, VIETNAM: Local city officials and univer
Risk information is key to good risk management,
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Regional Risks, Global Solutions How do we calcu
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From Crisis Management to Risk Reduction Since th
Istanbul Gölcük Ankara Turkey: building resilien
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Learning Experience: The Global Program for Safer
SAFETY IN NUMBERS25 $110m investment In Armenia,
Serbia: Regulating Risk 26 ■■ Serbia is on trac
The reduction of risk, supported by policy and le
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From an Improvised to a Planned Response The shif
Odisha: A Tale of Two Cyclones 28 The differenc
A Decade of Progress in Disaster Risk Management
Together, these programs are aimed at: ■■ Improvi
Numerical Weather Predicton Models and Other Fore
Women Prepared In India, as elsewhere in the dev
Community Preparedness in Bangladesh “Banglade
Voices of Transformation: Communities Taking Cont
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AFRICA HYDROMET AT WORK Modernization in Mali M
The shift from disaster response and recovery to
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From Financial Products to Comprehensive Financia
Mexico: A Holistic Approach In Mexico, where th
WEATHERING THE STORM How a Cat-DDO Works ■■ A De
Sharing the Load: Pooling Risk in the Pacific and
Disaster Risk Finance Infrastructure and
Panama: Institutionalizing Risk Financing A growi
Disaster risk financing has become an integral par
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From Reconstruction to Building Back Better As di
Nepal: From the Ground Up The 2015 earthquakes i
A Decade of Progress in Disaster Risk Management
Voices of Transformation: A Sturdier Future
A Decade of Progress in Disaster Risk Management
Djibouti: Season of Hope A PDNA conducted in Dji
A Decade of Progress in Disaster Risk Management
Lessons from Recovery Processes The last decade
RUSSELS, BELGIUM, JUNE 2017. Delegates in a plena
A decade of damage and needs assessments Bosni
In the last ten years, GFDRR has assisted in over
Acting Local: Capacity Building in Malawi Both t
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From Disaster Reduction and Recovery to Protectin
Ethiopia: Spreading the Net Ethiopia’s governmen
DID YOU KNOW? In Kenya, the Hunger Safety Net P
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Sector-Specific Resilience Some of the sectors m
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Upward Mobility: Innovations in Financial Inclusi
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Although much can be done to reduce the risk of d
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8 From Disaster Risk Management to Resilient D
DRM and Development The advances in DRM document
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The Next Ten Years The next ten years may see an
Promoting open access to risk information ■■ ■■
Deepening Financial Building resilience at P
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Through Risk, to Resilience The last 10 years h
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