DRR and Resilience

When can it be useful?
This resource will provide you with information about BHA's approach to risk reduction, preparedness, anticipatory action, which will help you design your BHA programs.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Strategies

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource provides you with information about ECHO's strategy to preparedness, early warning, early/anticipatory action and early response, including crisis modifiers. It is key to consult it when designing new projects integrating such themes.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Strategies

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

Also available in: French, Spanish

When can it be useful?
This resource explains how to take an integrated approach to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in humanitarian as well as development settings.

Language: English, French, Spanish

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

When can it be useful?
The Sendai Framework for DRR 2015-2030 presents the priorities of its signatory States in the area of disaster risk reduction worldwide.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Strategies

Useful during: Initial Orientation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

When can it be useful?
This resource highlights how disasters impact women and men differently, and identifies actions that can be taken to address and mitigate the negative differences.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Evaluation & Research Reports

Useful during: Initial Orientation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

When can it be useful?
These package of tools developed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation can give you operational instruments to perform a from a brief assessment to a more detailed analysis across climate, environmental and DRR components at project and strategy level.

Language: English, French, Spanish

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
CEDRA is a climate change and environmental tool for agencies in developing countries and provides a series of useful checklists

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists, Training Materials

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource is an example of an ECHO project aiming at strengthening at-risk communities' and local and provincial governments' leadership in disaster mitigation, preparedness, and early action. The project adopts a system strengthening approach aiming to build capacities of provincial and local governments to lead on developing a landslide disaster preparedness and early action framework.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Project Design Examples

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This online course, consisting of 6 modules and available in English and French, offers an introduction to resilience concepts and how to put them into practice.

Language: English, French

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: E-Learning and Webinars

Useful during: Initial Orientation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

Also available in: French, Spanish

When can it be useful?
This resource explains how to take an integrated approach to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in humanitarian as well as development settings.

Language: English, French, Spanish

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

When can it be useful?
This toolkit, consisting of three booklets downloadable at the link, can help you to develop and deliver infrastructure interventions in the health, education and WASH sectors that are more resilient to climate extremes and disaster risks.

Language: English, French

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Training Materials

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

When can it be useful?
This toolkit explains how to score the resilience of women and men at the local level, and identify any differences that exist between the two sexes in terms of resilience to disaster risks.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

Also available in: French, Spanish

When can it be useful?
This briefing paper makes a case for a new approach to risk and poverty reduction, focusing on addressing the structural inequalities that entrench vulnerability.

Language: English, French, Spanish

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Strategies

Useful during: Initial Orientation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

When can it be useful?
This resource explains how to measure and compare the impact of various projects on household resilience.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: E-Learning and Webinars

Useful during: Initial Orientation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

When can it be useful?
This framework can help you to integrate child and human rights into resilient urban development.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This guidebook describes the principles, tools and practices for developing and implementing urban disaster risk and resilience indicators based on stakeholder consultations in cities.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
These package of tools developed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation can give you operational instruments to perform a from a brief assessment to a more detailed analysis across climate, environmental and DRR components at project and strategy level.

Language: English, French, Spanish

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
CEDRA is a climate change and environmental tool for agencies in developing countries and provides a series of useful checklists

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists, Training Materials

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

When can it be useful?
Handbook to inform community-based adaptation, resilience and gender equality

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Training Materials

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource is an example of an ECHO project aiming at strengthening at-risk communities' and local and provincial governments' leadership in disaster mitigation, preparedness, and early action. The project adopts a system strengthening approach aiming to build capacities of provincial and local governments to lead on developing a landslide disaster preparedness and early action framework.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Project Design Examples

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers