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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.
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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 Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 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-et-Miquelon (France), Turks and Caicos Islands (UK), United States Virgin Islands (USA).
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Some pages of interest
The latest additions
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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.
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Related & Recent Publications
- Source(s): International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ICTILO); United Nations Development Programme - Thailand (UNDP Thailand); United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat (UNISDR)
- Integrating disaster risk reduction into the CCA and UNDAF: a guide for UN country teams; UNISDR, 2009
- The guidance lays out a step-by-step approach to assist UN country teams in integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the preparation, formulation and monitoring and evaluation of country analyses (CCA) and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF).
- Disaster impacts have persistent, long-term negative effects on poverty and human development that undermine the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While development has the potential to significantly reduce disaster risk, inappropriate development choices can also exacerbate vulnerabilities and aggravate the negative effects of disasters. Disaster risk reduction aims at addressing the underlying risk factors in order to reduce avoidable loss of life, property and livelihoods. Reducing vulnerabilities, mitigating disaster impacts and improving UN Country Teams' (UNCTs) responses to future disasters correlate strongly with fostering the MDGs and safeguarding development gains.
- 2009 UNISDR Secretariat Evaluation Report: Executive Summary / Full Report
- Initiated by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and major UNISDR donors, the evaluation’s purpose was to assess the secretariat’s performance over the last four years and to provide guidance for UNISDR's future direction. The independent report presents 42 recommendations based on 25 findings, which are summarized in five key messages included in the executive summary. The evaluation was backstopped by a multi-stakeholder Steering Committee and included several consultations with the ISDR Inter-Agency Group and the ISDR Support Group, composed of the permanent missions of UN Member States in Geneva.
- UNISDR secretariat biennial work programme: 2010-2011; United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat (UNISDR), 2009
- The UNISDR secretariat Biennial Work Programme was developed following the second session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in June 2009. It is based on the role and mandate of UNISDR as set by the UN General Assembly. The strategic direction for the 2010-2011 biennium is derived from the outcomes of the Global Platform and from regional consultations. The current programme has been further shaped through broad consultation with the...
- Imprint: [New York]: UN, 27 August, 2009
- UN Document Symbol: A/64/331
- Publication Date: 20090827
- 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.
- Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction
- Views from the Frontline: A local perspective of progress towards implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action, June 2009
- 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.
- UNISDR terminology on disaster risk reduction (2009); UNISDR, 2009
- ISDR Working Group on Environment and Disaster Reduction (UNEP / UNISDR); July 2008
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Other
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Development Education and Information Division; August 2008
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Background & Supporting Documents
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- Organization of American States (OAS); 2009 - AG/RES. 2492 (XXXIX-O/09)
- Adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 4, 2009
- Report in response to General Assembly resolutions 62/192, 61/199 and 61/200); United Nations General Assembly, 10 September 2008
- The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction - Resolution A/RES/62/192; 11 February 2008
- Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction - Report of the Secretary-General; September 5, 2007 (A/62/320)
- Measuring Progress in Disaster Risk Reduction: Americas Regional Overview 2005-2006
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