SEEDS: Women’s Participation in Disaster Relief and Recovery

Ayse Yonder with Sengul Akcar and Prema Gopalan, September 2005.

SEEDS publish its twentysecond pamphlet on women's participationi disaster relief and recovery. This report shows how women became involved in housing, created businesses, mobilized funds, and provided crucial community services.1 The pamphlet also examines the roles that NGOs and government policy and procedures play in facilitating (or impeding) women’s involvement.
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BARBADOS: Disaster Warning and Response Systems in Small island States. Barbados meeting, 8-9, August 2005 - Report.

Suzanne Shende, member of the Garifuna Emergency Committee of Honduras which is a member organization of GROOTS and Huairou Commission, was invited to participate in an "Experts Meeting" on Disaster Warning and Response Systems in Small Island Developing States Regions in Barbados, 8-9 August, 2005. Read more...

UNISDR: Disaster risk reduction within the context of the Hyogo Framework

You are invited to participate in an on-line dialogue to discuss the key-elements for "Assessing Progress Towards Disaster Risk Reduction within the context of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters". It will take place from 12 September 2005 to 10 October 2005 inclusive. Read more...

ACHR: Special issue on How Asia's Precarious Coastal Communities are Coping AfterTsunami
Housing by People in Asia, No.16, 2005

ACHR Newsletter special issue on South Asia Tsunami provides you a good insight on how community/government/ngos responded to the disaster. It also gives you stories and profiles from all the affected countries. Read more.....

BARBADOS: Disaster Warning and Response Systems in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)


This report documents the relevant international and regional institutions, agencies and initiatives involved in the many aspects of disaster warning, mitigation and management, and their complex array of interrelationships. It offers some comment on their relevance and possible shortcomings as well as giving an indication of where it is all headed. Click here..


INDIA: Disaster Management Bill

The Disaster Management Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha in May. The Bill provides for a detailed action plan right from the central government to the district and local levels to draw, implement and execute a disaster management plan.
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INDONESIA: ACEH AT THE CROSS ROADS

US: The Poverty of America

US: Katrina Useful Resources. Click here...

US: Katrina Does Not Compare to Tsunami

Perspective is essential in assessing these two very different disasters,warns commentator and consultant Nick Cater.(AlertNet, September 2, 2005).
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GRAMEEN FOUNDATION: Recovery from the Tsunami Disaster

Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development through Microfinance. This study examines five specific nations -- Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia and Thailand -- and the potential impact of microfinance as a cost-effective economic solution in the tsunami-ravaged countries. Read more....

US: Women And Girls Last? Averting the Second Post-Katrina Disaster

The fault lines of American society as much as the failings of its infrastructure are shamefully on display in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Race, class, age and (dis)ability are now at the heart of the public debate about vulnerability, preparedness and emergency response but this is also a story, as yet untold, about women and men. Read more....


OXFAM: Tsunami reconstruction efforts needs to focus on the poor

This brief takes stock of the relief and reconstruction efforts following the December 2004 Tsunami. It points out that the efforts so far have delivered real progress for millions of people affected by the disaster. Read more...

INDIA: Local level Risk Management: Indian Experience

The GoI-UNDP Disaster Risk Management (DRM) programme essentially aims to contribute towards the social and economic development goals of the National Government and enabling the selected multi-hazard States to minimise losses of development gains from disasters and reduce vulnerability. Read more...

US: Asian Community Spirit Prevented Looting after Tsunami

INDIA: Disaster Management: A status report

The institutional and policy mechanisms for carrying out response, relief
and rehabilitation have been well-established since Independence. These
mechanisms have proved to be robust and effective insofar as response, relief and rehabilitation are concerned. Read more...

INDIA: Knowledge Management in Disaster Reduction. The Indian Approach

The initiative is aiming to connect all government departments, statutory agencies, research organizations/ institutions to share collectively and individually their expert know-how’s. The exchange is facilitated through physical interaction, workshops, documentation of experiences, sharing on World Wide Web Portal etc.
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SRILANKA: Overview of Post-Conflict Recovery and Reconstruction

Experience and Lessons Learnt. Paper Presented at a Brainstorming Retreat Organised by the Commission of the African Union, for the Permanent Representatives of the African Union Member States, Durban, Republic of South Africa, 4 and 5 September 2005. Read more...