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Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2013
From Shared Risk to Shared Value: the Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction |
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From Shared Risk to Shared Value: the Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction |
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Part I - Chapter 4
Box 4.3 Progress in recording local disaster losses and impacts
As part of a process that aims at a global vision of local disaster losses, UNISDR, UNDP, the World Bank, Corporacion OSSO and other partners are supporting national governments to build information systems that systematically account for disaster losses and impact. Currently 56 countries engage in this effort.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua and Uruguay have all recently published disaster databases.
In Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali and Uganda have completed initial datasets that allow a more realistic view of disaster losses in countries where global datasets have little coverage. In the Arab states, new databases have been published in Djibouti and Lebanon.
In Asia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Timor-Leste and Viet Nam have completed disaster databases; in the Pacific Islands, a regional dataset covers 22 Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The Lao People’s Democratic Republic disaster database has been used for a National Assessment Report (Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 2012).
(Source: UNISDR)
Extensive disasters
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