Zambia

This publication is a synthesis of lessons from more than a decade of Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming in riverine geographic contexts. Based on research in Zambia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Mozambique, this publication

The paper compares and contrasts how disaster risk management is being conceptualised in relation to emerging climate change adaptation efforts and how these two agendas are influenced by different governance systems, accountabilities and social contracts

This article explores the role of National Meteorological and Hydrologic Services (NMHSs) in providing early warnings for severe weather events such as as cyclones and flash floods. While the NMHS is generally the authority solely responsible for issuing

This edition of Knowledge Matters explores Concern's Disaster Risk Reduction work across several countries.

The report provides insights and recommendations on:

• preparedness;
• risk analysis;
• engineering;
• gender;
• documentation;
• early warning;
• comm

This document serves to outline El Niño’s major implications on food and nutrition security in the southern Africa region and highlights immediate and long-term preparedness requirements. Further, it provides country profiles to give contextual national

This manual summarises the roles, responsibilities and procedures relating to the management of disasters in general in Zambia. It considers the fact that disasters take place in a local environment and that primary responders are the disaster victims

The 2015 disaster management policy is based on a review of the 2005 policy, necessitated by the National Disaster Management Act No. 13 of 2010, the paradigm shift from disaster management to disaster risk reduction, climate change and decentralization

Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies; Vol 7, No 1 (2015). doi: 10.4102/jamba.v7i1.201:

This article deals with the issue of applying generalised, a priori determinants of vulnerability to particular hazards in particular places, an approach which