Tools
Plans, Practices, Reports, and Assessments
Palm Beach County Florida: Small Business Disaster Survival Plan: Studies show that almost 50 percent of U.S companies that suffer major disasters never reopen and another 29 percent close within two years! Don't let this happen to your business. Use this site as a guide to develop a hurricane survival & recovery plan with inserts for other types of disasters. More>>
Plan para Emergencias y Seguridad Familiar: e-book in Spanish. More>>
CDEMA Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System: Project Brief>>; Project Summary from CDEMA>>
The PAHO/WHO Regional Emergency Response Team Field Manual. More>>
The PAHO/WHO Information Management and Communication in Emergencies and Disasters Manual for Disaster Response Teams. More>>
PowerPoint Presentations: 2010 DMA Regional Conference in Guatemala. More>>
DMA Best Practice Guide: English (click here); Spanish (click here)
Words into Action: A Guide for Implementing the Hyogo Framework. More>>
Global Development Alliance (GDA) Alliance Models in Natural Disasters and Complex Emergencies: What Works? More>> (external link)
World Bank, Sea Level Rise and Storm Surges: A Comparative Analysis of Impacts in Developing Countries (information about for Latin America and the Caribbean can be found on pages 22, Table 5 pg 23, Table 8 pg 31, Table 4 pg 33, Appendix Fig. A3 pg 39). More>>World Bank, Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis. More>>
World Bank, Building Resilient Communities Toolkit: Risk Management and Response to Natural Disasters through Social Funds and Community-Driven Development Operations. More>>
ISDR, Building Disaster Resilient Communities: Good Practices and Lessons Learned. Replicable practices for implementing Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction. More>>
ISDR, Stop Disasters! Online simulation game. - More>> (external link)
ISDR, Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Risk and poverty in a changing climate: Invest today for a safer tomorrow. NOTE: This report updates the hotspots information from the WB Natural Disaster Hotspots report (found in Annex). See Video>>; Report is available in English, Spanish, and French>>
ISDR, 2008 Report: Private Sector Activities in Disaster Risk Reduction, Good Practices and Lessons Learned. More>>
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS): Responding to an Influenza Pandemic in the Americas. More>>