Documents and publications

WFP assistance to Bangladesh started in 1974 as a welfare relief operation focused on center-based feeding. Over the next decades it gradually evolved as a development intervention, in accordance with the evolving socioeconomic scenario of Bangladesh

The overall purpose of the study was to develop a socio-economic profile of WFP’s six priority rural areas of Bangladesh based on a logical framework of the linkages between food security, nutritional status, livelihoods, and socio-economic indicators.
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Australian Emergency Manual Series
PART III: Volume 3 — Guidelines Guide 11

The series has been developed to assist in the management and delivery of support services in a disaster context. 

These Guidelines and the associated case study ‘Economic and

The loss of life and property and the challenges that were faced in the aftermath of October 2005 earthquake affecting Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the NWFP province exhibited the need for establishing appropriate policy and institutional arrangements to

Nearly twenty years ago, researchers at Macquarie University began compiling databases on natural hazards and their impacts in Australia. Tropical cyclones and floods together account for more than 70% of known natural hazard deaths since the European

When Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, it clearly brought with it the worst devastation from a natural disaster in our country’s history. It also revealed longstanding problems that continue to afflict many of our nation’s

The individuals and families who were displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and who have ended up in FEMA-subsidized community housing in Louisiana are facing a second crisis, one in which untreated and undertreated chronic medical problems and

Intense rainfall from 1998 Hurricane Mitch, triggered in excess of 500,000 landslides, particularly debris flows, throughout the country. Landslides damaged an estimated 70% of the road network in Honduras. Numbers of fatalities due to landslides are not