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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 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).
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Some pages of interest
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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.
Together we are developing the wealth of DRR-related information and ensuring its availability and good use..
Related & Recent Publications
- 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.
- 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
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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
- 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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Contact us
For more information surrounding HFA-Pedia, please see: About HFA-Pedia
If you have comments or questions, please send us an email at hfa@eird.org
- 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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Contact us
For more information surrounding HFA-Pedia, please see: About HFA-Pedia
If you have comments or questions, please send us an email at hfa@eird.org



