Acknowledgements

Advisory Board

Chair

Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction

Members

Zoubida Allaoua, Director, Finance, Economics and Urban Department, World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Wadid Erian, Director, The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic
Virginia Garcia Acosta, Director, Social Anthropology Higher Studies Research Center, CIESAS, Mexico DF, Mexico
Rebeca Grynspan, Assistant Administrator, United Nations Development Programme, New York, USA
Debarati Guha-Sapir, Director, Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Brussels, Belgium
Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, Resident Coordinator, Eastern Caribbean, United Nations Development Programme, Bridgetown, Barbados
John Holmes, Director, Ditchley Foundation, Oxford, UK
Michel Jarraud, Secretary General, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Randolph Kent, Humanitarian Futures Programme, King’s College, London, UK
Allan Lavell, Coordinator, Social Programme for Environmental and Disaster Risk, Latin America Social Science Faculty, FLACSO, San Jose, Costa Rica
Ibrahim Osman, Former Deputy Secretary-General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva, Switzerland
Aromar Revi, Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, New Delhi, India
David Satterthwaite, Senior Fellow, Human Settlements Group, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK
Johan Schaar, Director, Department for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Services, Swedish International Cooperation Agency, Stockholm, Sweden
Youba Sokona, Executive Secretary, Sahara and Sahel Observatory, Tunis, Tunisia
Dennis Wenger, Programme Director, Element 1638, National Science Foundation, Arlington, USA
Xiulan Zhang, Director, Institute for Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing, China

Coordinating Lead Author

Andrew Maskrey, Senior Advisor/Coordinator, Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction UNISDR, Geneva, Switzerland.

Global Assessment Report project team at UNISDR:

Andrew Maskrey (Coordinating lead author); Bina Desai (Coordinator DRM policy research and lead author); Justin Ginnetti (Coordinator drought risk and lead author); Sujit Mohanty (Coordinator HFA Progress Review and Monitor and lead author); Julio Serje (Coordinator national disaster loss databases and on-line resources and lead author); John Harding (Contributing author); Ana Maria Castillo (Project management); Frederic Delpech (Editorial assistance); Olaolu Adeleye, Alessandra La Vaccara, Rajinder Sagoo and Olga Vilima (Research assistants).

Collaborators:

The following institutions and individuals provided vital support for different components of GAR11: Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN) (Manu Gupta); Children in a Changing Climate (CCC) (Frances Seballos); Christian Aid (Jerome Faucet and Katherine Nightingale); Consorcio Evaluacion de Riesgos Naturales – America Latina (ERN-AL): Centro Internacional de Metodos Numericos en Ingenieria (CIMNE), INGENIAR LTDA., ITEC SAS and ERN Ingenieros Consultores (Omar Dario Cardona and Alex Barbat); European University Institute (Giorgia Giovanetti); Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Risk Reduction (GNDRR) (Marcus Oxley and Terry Gibson); Humanitarian Futures Programme (Randolph Kent); International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (David Fisher); International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (David Satterthwaite); International Labour Organization (ILO) (Alfredo Lazarte and Makul Bhola); Latin America and Caribbean Center at Florida International University, Miami (Richard Olsen, Juan Pablo Sarmiento and Gabriela Hoberman); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Roger Pulwarty); Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) (Farrokh Nadim and Oddvar Kjekstad); Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) (Sebastián Albuja); Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR) (Marisol Estrella); Plan International (Nick Hall); Practical Action (Piet van den Ende); Tearfund (Jessica Faleiro); United Nations Development Programme – Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (UNDP-BCPR) (Fenella Frost, Eva Wuttge and Ioana Creitaru); UNDP Bureau for Development Policy (Vesna Dzuteska-Bisheva); UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (Almudena Fernandez and Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva); UNEP-GRID (Pascal Peduzzi, Christian Herold, Bruno Chatenoux, Hy Dao and Gregory Giuliani); UNEP Risoe Centre (URC) (Anne Olhoff); United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (Antony Spalton); and the World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) (Francis Ghesquiere, Saroj Jha, Olivier Mahul and Robert Reid); World Meteorological Organization (M.V.K. Sivakumar and Robert Stefanski).

Contributing authors:

Emad Adly (Arab Network for Environment and Development, Egypt); Abdou Ali (AGRHYMET); Diane Archer (Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, Thailand); Margaret Arnold (Social Development, World Bank); Brigitte Balthasar (Willis Re.); Alex Barbat (ERN-AL); Abdul Bashir; Nabil Ben Khatra (Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel – OSS); Gabriel Bernal (ERN-AL); Sanjaya Bhatia (International Recovery Platform – IRP, Kobe); Somsook Boonyabancha (CODI, Thailand); Alice Brenes; Alonso Brenes Torres (Facultad Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales – FLACSO); Fernando Briones (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social – CIESAS); Ana Campos Garcia (University of the Andes, Colombia); Norberto Carcellar (Philippines Homeless People’s Federation); Omar Dario Cardona (ERN-AL); Jose Cepeda (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute – NGI, Oslo); Marie Charrière (Universite de Lausanne – UNIL); Werner Corrales; Hy Dao (UNEP-GRID, Geneva); Alejandro de la Fuente (Social Development, World Bank); Uwe Deichmann (Development Research Group, World Bank); Natalia Diaz (Corporacion OSSO); David Dodman (IIED, London); Wadid Erian (Arab Center for the Study of Arid Zones and Dry Lands); Marisol Estrella (PEDRR, Geneva); David Farrell (Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology – CIMH); Almudena Fernandez (UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean); Chedli Fezzani (OSS); Clovis Freire (UN ESCAP, Bangkok); Jose Gallegos (Oxford Policy Management, United Kingdom); Gideon Galu (Famine Early Warning System Network – FEWS NET); Johann Goldhammer (Global Fire Monitoring Centre, Germany); Manu Gupta (SEEDS, India); Jorgelina Hardoy (IIED-AL); Arif Hasan (Urban Resource Centre, Pakistan); Mike Hayes (National Drought Mitigation Center – NDMC, University of Nebraska- Lincoln); Srikantha Herat (United Nations University – UNU-Tokyo); Gabriela Hoberman (Latin America and Caribbean Centre, Florida International University); John Ievers (IRP, Kobe); Cassidy Johnson (Development Planning Unit, University College, London); Randolph Kent (Humanitarian Futures Programme – HFP, Kings College, London); Jayashankar Krishnamurty (International Labour Organization); Allan Lavell (FLACSO); Christopher Lavell (University of Costa Rica); Kenrick Leslie (Caribbean Community Climate Change Center); Yaoming Liao (China Meteorological Administration); Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer (IIASA); Franklyn Lisk (University of Warwick, United Kingdom and CREPOL, Senegal); Silvi Llosa (UNISDR, Geneva); Bradford Lyon (International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University); Elizabeth Mansilla (Universidad Autonoma de Mexico); Mabel Marulanda (ERN-AL); Antonio Mestre (Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia, Spain); Tanya Miquelena; Diana Mitlin (IIED, London); Miguel Mora (ERN-AL); Alvaro Moreno (ERN-AL); Francis Mosetlho (South African Weather Service); Ray Motha (United States Department of Agriculture); Dicky Muslim (Padjadjaran University, Indonesia); Lizardo Narvaez; Carolina Neri (CIESAS); Ali Mohammed Noorian (Islamic Republic of Iran Meteorological Organization); Nayibe Jimenez Octavia de Cadiz (Corporacion OSSO); Farrokh Nadim (NGI); Ian O’Donnell (Asian Development Bank); Kenji Okazaki (GRIP, Tokyo); Anne Olhoff (UNEP Risoe Centre); Richard Olsen (Latin America and Caribbean Center, Florida International University); Mario Ordaz (ERN-AL); Sheela Patel (Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres – SPARC, India); Carmen Paz Castro (Universidad Central de Chile); Mark Pelling (Kings College, London); Pascal Peduzzi (UNEP-GRID, Geneva); Roger Pulwarty (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – NOAA); Fernando Ramirez; Margaret Hiza Redsteer (United States Geological Survey – USGS); Nina Salismaa (PEDRR, Geneva); Jayanta Sarkar (India Meteorological Department); Juan Pablo Sarmiento (Latin America and Caribbean Center, Florida International University); David Satterthwaite (IIED); Eduardo Savio Passos Martins, (Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos, Brasil); Zoe Scott (Oxford Policy Management); Francis Seballos (Institute for Development Studies, United Kingdom); Rajib Shaw (Kyoto University); Guillaume Simonian (UNICEF); M.V.K. Sivakumar (World Meteorological Organization – WMO); Helge Christian Smebye (NGI); Robert Stefanski (WMO); Luz Stella Velasquez; Pablo Suarez (Boston University); Akhilesh Surjan (UNU-Tokyo); Mark Svoboda (NDMC, University of Nebraska- Lincoln); Tom Tanner (IDS); Marcela Tarazona (Oxford Policy Management); Peter Thompson (Latin America and Caribbean Center, Florida International University); Marj Tonini (UNIL); Adrian Trotman (CIMH); Jairo Valcarcel (ERN-AL); Bjørn Vidar Vangelsten (NGI); Carmen Vega Orozco (UNIL); Cesar Velasquez (ERN-AL); Paul Venton; Marjorie Victor Brans (Oxfam America); Don Wilhite (School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln); Gareth Williams (The Policy Practice, United Kingdom); Luis Yamin (ERN-AL); Irina Zodrow (UNISDR, Geneva).

HFA Progress Review:

National progress reports were prepared by the governments of: Algeria, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Barbados, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Timor-Leste, Togo, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Republic of Tanzania, United States of America, Uruguay, Viet Nam, Yemen and Zambia.

Regional progress reports were prepared by the following regional inter-governmental organizations: Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN); Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA); Centro de Coordinacion para la Prevencion de los Desastres Naturales en America Central (CEPREDENAC); Comité Andino para la Prevención y Atención de Desastres (CAPRADE); League of Arab States (LAS); Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC); and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). The HFA Progress Review was supported by UNISDR Regional Offices in Asia and Pacific (Jerry Velasquez, Angelika Planitz, Abhilash Panda, Madhavi Aryabandu and Zulqarnain Majeed); Americas (Ricardo Mena, Jennifer Guralnick and Ruben Vergas); Africa (Pedro Basabe, Rhea Katsanakis and Edward Turvil); Europe (Paola Albrito, Michiko Hama and Ranjit George); Arab States (Amjad Abbashar and Luna Abu-Swaireh); and the UNISDR Information Management Unit (Joel Margate, Simonetta Consortti and John Ravi Hayag).

National disaster loss data:

Argentina (Centro de Estudios Sociales y Ambientales (CENTRO), Alejandra Celis, Emilia Schiavo Guarnacci, Paula Trolliet, Guido Bacino); Bolivia (Viceministerio de Defensa Civil y Cooperación al Desarrollo Integral, Carlos A. Mariaca, Virginia I. Mamani, Jose L. Condori, Observatorio San Calixto, Estela Minaya, Maria del Carmén Beltran); Chile (Universidad de Chile, Alejandro León, Viviana Inostroza, Macarena Mella, Carolina Clerc); Colombia (Dirección de Gestión de Riesgos (DGR), Adriana Cuevas, Universidad EAFIT y Corporación OSSO, Martha Lya Mejía, Natalia Diaz); Costa Rica (Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgo y Atención de Emergencias (CNE), Douglas Salgado, Oscar Lüke, Alice Brenes); Ecuador (Secretaría Nacional de Gestion de Riesgo (SNGR), Johan Coronel, Cindy Coronel, Ronny Coronel); El Salvador (Servicio Nacional de Estudios Territorialed (SNET), Ivonne Jaimes, Susana Barrera, Griselda Berrera); Guatemala (Gisella Gellert, Erick Ponce, Rita Canga-Arguelles, Susan Mansilla); Indonesia (Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB), Ridwan Yunus); Islamic Republic of Iran (Ministry of Interior-UNDP, Amin Shamseddini, Victoria Kianpour); Jordan (Civil Protection, Col. Waleed Al-So’ub); Mexico (Elizabeth Mansilla, Tamara Briseño, Lourdes Mansilla, Ana Lilia Mansilla); Mozambique (INGC National Disaster Management Institute and UNDP, Dulce Chilundo, Eunice Mucache); Nepal (National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET), Amod Dixit, Gopi Bashal); Orissa (State Disaster Management Authority, Kalika Mohapatra, Ambika Prasad); Panama (Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil (SINAPROC), Eric Reyes, Felix N. Visuetty, Adonis Z. Sanjur); Peru (Centro de Estudios y Prevención de Desastres (PREDES), Jose Sato, Alfonso Diaz, Julio Meneses, Juana I. Villafani, Donna Villena); Sri Lanka (Ministry of Disaster Management, Dinesh Rajapaksha); Syrian Arabic Republic (Ministry of Local Administration, Kinda Muhana, Claude Amer); Tamil Nadu (Office of State Commissioner, Ganapathy G.P., Akram M., John David); Venezuela (Centro Nacional de Prevención y Atención de Desastres (CENAPRAD), Landy Rodriguez, Jairo Sanchez, Zully Zayonara, Maria Beatriz Aranguren); Yemen (Ministry of Environment, Majed Alrefai).

The updating and compilation of disaster loss data was coordinated in Latin America by Mauricio Bautista, Jhon Henry Caicedo, Maria Isabel Cardona, Natalia Diaz, Nayibe Jimenez, Cristina Rosales, Alexander Torres, Andres Velasquez (Corporacion OSSO, Colombia); in Asia and Africa by Julio Serje (UNISDR secretariat) in collaboration with Luna Abu-Swaireh (UNISDR Arab States), Sanny Jegillos, Rajesh Sharma and Nescha Teckle (UNDP, Regional Centre Bangkok).

Review editors:

Rashmin Gunasekera (Willis Research Network); Kamal Kishore (UNDP BCPR); Aromar Revi (IIHS, Delhi); Johan Schaar (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency – SIDA, Government of Sweden); Don Wilhite (University of Nebraska-Lincoln); Dennis Wenger (National Science Foundation).

Peer reviewers:

Jonathan Abrahams (WHO); Joern Birkmann (UNU-Bonn); David Bresch (Swiss Re.); Dhar Chakrabarty (SAARC Disaster Management Centre); Richard Choularton (World Food Programme); Ian Davis (Coventry University); Siegfried Demuth (UNESCO); Fatma El Mallah (League of Arab States); Jessica Faleiro (Tearfund); David Fisher (IFRC); Matthew Foote (Willis Research Network); Francis Ghesquiere (World Bank); Sushil Gupta (RMSI); Mike Hayes (National Drought Mitigation Center); Sohaila Javanmard (Dept. of Environment, Islamic Republic of Iran); Sanny Jegillos (UNDP Bangkok); Ramla Khalidi (UNESCWA); Yvonne Klynman (IFRC); Allan Lavell (FLACSO); Franklyn Lisk (University of Warwick and CREPOL); Olivier Mahul (World Bank); Mabel Marulanda (CIMNE); Patrick McSharry (Smith School, Oxford University); Vinod Chandra Menon (NDMA, Government of India); Ray Motha (US Dept. of Agriculture); Jaroslav Myziak (FEEM); Adil Najam (Pardee Center, Boston University); Martin Sharp (Dept. of Climate Change, Government of Australia); Enrique Silva (Boston University); Seth Vordzorgbe (UNDP Johannesburg); and Ben Wisner (UCL).

Design and production:

Design and cover concept and style guide: Hannah Lea Dykast, Molly Oberholtzer, Liza Stark, Mike Tully , William Bevington, Mathan Ratinam and Nigel Snoad (Parsons, The New School for Design, New York)
Editing: Adam Barclay, Nick Pasiecznik (Green Ink, UK)
Design realization, cover and layout: Christel Chater (Green Ink, UK)
Maps and figures: Julio Serje (UNISDR); Stéphane Kluser and Stefan Schwarzer (UNEP-GRID)
Indexing: Indexing Specialists Ltd, UK
Production coordination: Rebecca Mitchell (Green Ink, UK)
Printing: Information Press, Oxford, UK

On-line Version:

Design concept and wireframes: Neha Shah, Mollie Ableman, Vidyasagar Kadiyam, Hannah Lea Dykast (Parsons, The New School for Design, New York)
Technical Architecture and Software/HTML Implementation: Julio Serje. HFA viewer tool: Sujit Mohanty (UNISDR)

Resources:

Financial resources were provided by the Governments of Japan, Norway and Switzerland, the European Commission (DG ECHO and DG Development), and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery. Other resources were provided by the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Governments of Spain (through the Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura) and the United States of America (through NOAA and Florida International University); UNDP (RBLAC and BCPR); and the World Bank.