New report assesses humanitarian system and calls for increased DRR

8 Feb 2010, IRIN

The emergency aid industry has improved but must try harder, according to the broadest ever assessment of its performance carried out by ALNAP. A number of aid sectors continue to be neglected year in and year out, among them: protection, early recovery, emergency preparedness and disaster risk reduction...

• Timor Leste: Water supplies running on empty

  8 Feb 2010, IRIN

  'Sustainable water systems is the key goal' siad Keryn Clark, programme team leader for the Timor-Leste Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme (RWSSP), an AusAID-funded project working with the Timorese government to improve water supplies...

• Analysis: Mexico’s vulnerability to hurricane risk

  7 Feb 2010, Climatico

  Disasters continue to be treated as 'unavoidable' and so policy tends to be reactive rather than responsive. However, as part of the Hyogo Framework for Action, several countries (Mexico included) have moved towards disaster risk reduction, reports Krishna Krishnamurthy...