The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend, now in its third consecutive year, threatens water security for nearly two billion people. All twelve major river …
This new UN report explores why increasing disaster risks represent a growing problem for the economic & business community and provides a review of practices that can reduce their risk of disaster loss. It is based on review of disaster losses in 56 countries. The third edition of the United …
This framework explains the Disaster Risk Reduction for Food and Nutrition Security Framework Programme of the FAO which has been undertaken with the goal of enhancing the resilience of livelihoods against threats and emergencies to ensure the food and nutrition security of vulnerable farmers, fishers, herders, foresters and other at …
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has drawn flak from the CAG which said the apex planning and supervising body in handling calamity has been found to be ineffective in most of the key areas. In its performance audit report, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India said it has …
This report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended March 2012 containing the results of the Performance Audit of Disaster Preparedness in India. The performance audit was conducted during May 2012 to September 2012.
At least 420 people were killed by natural disasters in the country within the last one year period, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA). Among the natural disasters, lightning topped the list, claiming 129 lives between April 13, 2012 and April 5, 2013. The others are landslides, floods …
In the backdrop of two strong earthquakes rocking Sikkim, the capital city of which is witnessing haphazard growth and mushrooming of multi-storey buildings, the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has launched a project to undertake seismic microzonation of Gangtok city and its surroundings area for disaster mitigation and urban planning. …
The Asia-Pacific region has been battered in recent years by a relentless series of shocks. Some have been related to natural disasters, such as earthquakes or droughts or floods. Others, such as the 2008 financial crisis, have been caused by convulsions in global markets. Still others, such as rocketing food …
The policy brief informs local policymakers about the current trends and activities taking place in selected cities that have signed up to the Making Cities Resilient Campaign since 2010. The Summary draws largely on the findings of the Making Cities Resilient Report 2012, as well as interviews and information local …
Although Dhaka city has not experienced a major earthquake yet, it is one of the world’s 20 cities most vulnerable to earthquakes, says an Earthquake Disaster Risk Index of Stanford University, USA. It is one of the high risk zones due to fault lines near the capital and the vulnerability …
Earthquake Disaster Risk Index of Stanford University ranks Bangladesh (Dhaka) among the 20 cities most vulnerable to earthquake in the world. The World Bank is providing assistance (grant) in financing 'Bangladesh Urban Earthquake Resilience Project' to enhance earthquake preparedness. The Government and the World Bank are engaged in a multi-year …
The government is thinking of constituting trained and equipped search and rescue (SAR) teams of security personnel to deal with natural disasters in the country. One medium SAR team comprising 50-60 personnel each from the Armed Police Force (APF) and the Nepal Army (NA) and around 10 light SAR teams …
Should that work, it will bring in an additional USD 250,000 for other landslide-prone areas across the country With approaching monsoon months, landslides and roadblocks along highways cutting across the country’s steep topography impends. Of the many landslide-prone stretches across the country, the one at Rinchending, the main link of …
The National DRR Policy provides an overall guiding framework for addressing the high levels of disaster risk permeating Pakistani Society. It covers both natural and man-made hazards. The policy seeks to promote priority measures to ameliorate already existing vulnerability to hazards, and equally important measures to ensure future development processes …
China is planning to build a national earthquake monitoring and warning system in five years. While the system would never be able to forecast an earthquake, it could detect quakes and notify people within seconds before seismic waves actually hit them, according to an anonymous official with the China Earthquake …
A German non-governmental organisation formally handed over the control of six earthquake early warning systems to Azad Kashmir’s State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA). Malteser International had installed these costly systems in Ali Akbar Awan Boys High School and Girls High School Madina Market in the municipal area of Muzaffarabad and …
The report provides a summary of results of 11 studies carried out over the past two years (2011, 2012) under the Building Capacity on Climate Change Adaptation in the Coastal Areas of Pakistan, a Worldwide Fund for Nature-Pakistan project jointly administered with partners LEAD-Pakistan and WWF-UK with the financial support …
Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose lives and rights are threatened by disasters and climate change. It is aimed at program management, advisory and technical staff of development and …
This document states that “Resilient Habitat” is an alternative approach in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation targeting the most vulnerable communities. Expanding the last decade’s introduction of individual small to medium scale DRR/CCA interventions, the government along with the donors mobilizes the Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) to …
Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future focuses on the steps required to ensure that investment in disaster resilience happens and that it occurs as an integral, systematic part of development. At-risk communities in Asia and the Pacific can apply a wide range of policy, capacity, and investment instruments and …
Since 2006, ICIMOD has commissioned various case studies as part of a study on flash flood risk reduction in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. The purpose of these studies was to create a knowledge base on flash flood processes in different parts of the region with diverse climatic and socioeconomic …
