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1 International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
2 What's New
3 Regions and Countries
4 Some pages of interest
5 Related & Recent Publications
- 5.1 Other
- 5.2 Background & Supporting Documents
6 Contact us

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

Welcome to HFA-Pedia, the ISDR system-wide interactive tool for facilitating information exchange and improved reporting. We hope you find this tool useful and welcome your comments and inputs.

This online interactive encyclopedia surrounding disaster risk reduction is open to any DRR-related topic of interest and currently includes national pages with useful information for all countries and overseas territories belonging to the Americas region, as well as a large and ever-increasing number of pages and articles surrounding transversal themes and topics of interest to the DRR community. Although new pages can be created or existing ones edited in a user-friendly way, the ISDR secretariat, as host of the HFA-Pedia, reserves the right to approve all changes.

What's New

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas
Central American Probabilistic Risk Assessment Platform (CAPRA)

Regions and Countries

For information about the progress being made at the national or country level, please visit that country's page by using the navigation button National Pages on the left to access the list of Country pages of the Americas or by clicking on the subregion in the map below and following the link to each particular country as indicated in the country listing. Currently available country pages are those corresponding to the Americas: North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.

Independent countries of the Americas:

Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Overseas territories of the Americas:

Anguilla (UK), Aruba (Netherlands), Bermuda (UK), British Virgin Islands (UK), Cayman Islands (UK), French Guiana (France), Guadeloupe (France), Martinique (France), Montserrat (UK), Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands), Puerto Rico (USA), Saint Barthélemy (France), Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France), Turks and Caicos (UK), United States Virgin Islands (USA).

Some pages of interest

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Space technology and disaster reduction	Terminology
Climate change	Disaster risk financing
Disaster risk reduction	Environmental sustainability and disaster risk reduction
Food crisis	Gender in climate change and disaster risk reduction
Greater Caribbean	HFA Monitor
Hyogo Framework for Action	Indicators of progress
ISDR partners in action	ISDR secretariat
ISDR system	National platforms
REDLAC	Reporting Framework HFA 2007-2009
United Nations	Water and sanitation
Also:
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)	HFA-Pedia Help

Remember that these pages are in constant development and the quality of their content is up to all of us - the disaster risk reduction community - as the contributors and collaborators of this interactive and participatory system. As such, feel free to modify existing pages or create new pages as you see fit.

Together we are developing the wealth of DRR-related information and ensuring its availability and good use.

Related & Recent Publications

Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction (2009)

UNISDR, 2009

The Report is the first biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction prepared in context of the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). The ISDR, launched in 2000, provides a framework to coordinate actions to address disaster risks at the local, national, regional and international levels. The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 (HFA), endorsed by 168 UN member states at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan in 2005, urges all countries to make major efforts to reduce their disaster risk by 2015.

Annual disaster statistical review 2008: the numbers and trends

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), 2009

This publication reports on the human and economic losses caused by disasters of natural origen in 2008 with figures based on the EM-DAT database with comparisons to previous years. It asserts that although fewer disasters occurred in 2008, events had a larger impact than usual on human settlements.