'This report examines the building blocks of successful legislative reform for disaster risk reduction, and presents a detailed account of the reform process in South Africa.'
Between 2006 and 2007, Tearfund undertook an extensive piece of research among communities and governments in South, South East and Central Asia and Africa to identify good practice in community-based disaster risk management and identify the challenges in linking CBDRM with government policy and practice, and methods to overcome them.
'This report looks at similarities and differences between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR), and discusses the rationale for adopting a more integrated approach to these issues.'
UNISDR's website on DRR provides a range of resources including articles on key themes, organizational descriptions, event listing, job resources, etc.
This briefing paper provides a synthesis of and introduction to key lessons from evaluations of relief and recovery/humanitarian response to flooding in the last 20 years from Africa, Asia and the Americas.
