Free online courses on Innovative Solutions for Cities by World Bank

Street Addressing and Management of Cities

Street Addressing is an invaluable tool for city management, although often misunderstood. It provides an opportunity to (a) create or update a map...

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Urban Crime and Violence Prevention

Urban crime and violence constitute a serious impediment to economic and social development globally. In many urban centers across the world, high...

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Safe and Resilient Cities

This e-learning course focuses on disaster risk management (DRM) at the city level. Participants will learn, in particular, about planning and...

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Introduction to Disaster Risk Management

This course is the introductory course of the World Bank Institute’s e-learning program on disaster risk management (DRM). The objective of...

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Designing and Implementing Successful Water Supply and Sanitation Utility Reform

In emerging markets, many water supply and sanitation utilities are locked in a vicious spiral of weak performance, insufficient funding,...

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Sustainable Urban Land Use Planning

Urbanization is the defining global phenomenon of this century. For the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lives in...

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Integrated Urban Transport Planning

As the developing world is urbanizing rapidly, urban mobility becomes a critical issue. Urban mobility impacts not only the health and well being of...

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Integrated Urban Transport Planning

Date: April 02, 2014 - May 20, 2014

As the developing world is urbanizing rapidly, urban mobility becomes a critical issue. Urban mobility impacts not only the health and well being of...

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Cities and Climate Change Leadership

Date: October 28, 2013 - November 15, 2013

This e-learning course discusses how cities and urban regions can lead climate actions and mainstream climate mitigation and adaptation into their...

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Safe and Resilient Cities

Date: April 23, 2014 - May 21, 2014

This e-learning course focuses on disaster risk management (DRM) at the city level. Participants will learn, in particular, about planning and...

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Source: http://einstitute.worldbank.org/ei/wbeiterms/ecourse/62

Disaster risk management in post-2015 development goals: potential targets and indicators

• http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/7344-disaster-risk-management-post-2015-development-goals-potential-targets-indicators

Tom Mitchell, Lindsey Jones, Emma Lovell and Eva Comba

 

Disasters can hamper economic growth, affect poverty levels and cause human suffering. Without significant action, the extent and impact of economic and social damage associated with disasters will get worse over the next 20 years, largely as a result of growing exposure of people and assets. This has the potential to reverse development progress in hard-hit areas.

Including measures to promote disaster risk management (DRM) in the post-2015 development goals is needed to incentivise investment in advance of shocks to protect lives and livelihoods – but also save money.

This report examines options for including DRM in the post-2015 development framework. Its eight chapters, each authored by leading international experts, combine to explore three scenarios for including DRM:

1. A standalone goal on disasters, supported by targets. The report assesses targets on reducing mortality, reducing economic losses, preventing impoverishment and protecting and improving health systems;
2. A target on disasters within a goal on ‘resilience’, ‘security’ or ‘tackling obstacles to development’; drawing on the detailed assessments of the targets mentioned above.
3. Integration of DRM into other goals. The report particularly highlights how DRM could be included in poverty reduction and education goals.

Language: 

English

ISBN: 

978-1-909464-31-5

Programme: 

Climate and Environment Programme

• Climate change
• Adaptation and resilience
• Risk reduction and management
• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
• The MDGs to 2015 and beyond
• Measuring development

Disaster Risk Management in Post-2015 Development Goals: Potential Targets and Indicators (pdf, 1.58M)

Executive Summary (Mitchell, Jones, Lovell and Comba) (pdf, 110.64k)

Chapter 1 - Introduction (Mitchell, Lovell, Comba and Jones) (pdf, 92.59k)

Chapter 2 - Disasters and their economic impacts (Ranger and Surminski) (pdf, 412.26k)

Chapter 3 - Disaster Deaths (Guha-Sapir and Hoyois) (pdf, 262.21k)

Chapter 4 - Disasters and their impact on poverty (Clarke and Reid) (pdf, 107.31k)

Chapter 5- Health in a Disasters Goal (World Health Organization) (pdf, 140.66k)

Chapter 6 - Disaster resilience in a poverty reduction goal (Sumner) (pdf, 157.96k)

Chapter 7 - DRR in an education goal (Zook Sorensen, Rumsey and Garcia) (pdf, 143.46k)

Chapter 8 - Synthesis (Jones, Mitchell, Lovell and Comba) (pdf, 118.77k)

Annex (pdf, 165.04k)

References (pdf, 91.03k)

Workbook on Planning for Urban Resilience

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/15739387/work-book-planning-urban-resilience-face-disasters-adapting-experiences-vietnams-cities-other-cities
Workbook on Planning for Urban Resilience

A work book on planning for urban resilience in the face of disasters : adapting experiences from Vietnam's cities to other cities (English)

Abstract This workbook is intended to help policy makers in developing countries plan for a safer future in urban areas in the face of natural disasters and the consequences of climate change. It is based on the experiences of three cities in Vietnam, Can Tho, Dong Hoi, and Hanoi, that worked with international and local experts under World Bank supervision to develop local resilience action plans (LRAPs) in 2009-10. An LRAP is a detailed planning document that reflects local concerns and priorities based on the experiences of the past and projections for the future. It is not a wish list of projects that may never be completed because they are too costly or lack political support. Rather, it should be a realistic document that describes and establishes priorities for specific steps that can be undertaken in the near term to adapt to both climate related and other hazards. Regardless of their size, location, political orientation, or technical capacity, other cities can learn from the experiences of these pilot cities to develop their own LRAPs. The purpose of this workbook is to adapt the initial experiences of Can Tho, Dong Hoi, and Hanoi to benefit the national government and other communities in Vietnam and beyond. Indeed, the process described in this workbook was later adopted in the cities of Iloilo, the Philippines; Ningbo, China; and Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and the concluding chapter of this workbook draws on some of the lessons learned in these cities. However, the workbook, while generalizable to other contexts, largely reflects the Vietnamese experience. 

Complete Report in English

Official version of document (may contain signatures, etc)

• Official PDF, 200 pages 14.0 mb

Safer Homes, Stronger Communities

Resources for Reconstructing Housing and Communities after Natural Disasters

• http://www.housingreconstruction.org/housing/

Table of Contents

Here you can open or download the complete handbook in pdf format, and access both online (html) and pdf versions of individual handbook chapters. For background on the handbook, see Introduction. For details about the Web site, go to About.

Complete Handbook    

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Individual Handbook Chapters

Click on chapter titles below to view chapters online or on link at right to open/download pdf version.

 

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Front Matter (Title Page, Acknowledgements, Authors, Notes, Table of Contents)	Open PDF (976 KB)
Note to the Policy Maker Section	Open PDF (450 KB)
Note to the Project Manager Section	Open PDF (504 KB)
Handbook Guiding Principles	Open PDF (707 KB)
PART 1  Reconstruction Tasks and How to Undertake Them
Section 1  Assessing Impact and Defining Reconstruction Policy
Chapter 1    Early Recovery: The Context for Housing and Community Reconstruction	Open PDF (2.98 MB)
Chapter 2    Assessing Damage and Setting Reconstruction Policy	Open PDF (3.8 MB)
Chapter 3    Communication in Post-Disaster Reconstruction	Open PDF (2.41 MB)
Chapter 4    Who Gets a House? The Social Dimension of Housing Reconstruction	Open PDF (2.41 MB)
Chapter 5    To Relocate or Not to Relocate	Open PDF (3.45 MB)
Chapter 6    Reconstruction Approaches	Open PDF (2.87 MB)
Section 2  Planning Reconstruction
Chapter 7    Land Use and Physical Planning	Open PDF (3.69 MB)
Chapter 8    Infrastructure and Services Delivery	Open PDF (3.07 MB)
Chapter 9    Environmental Planning	Open PDF (2.67) MB)
Chapter 10  Housing Design and Construction Technology	Open PDF (2.31 MB)
Chapter 11  Cultural Heritage Conservation	Open PDF (2.53 MB)
Section 3  Project Implementation
Chapter 12  Community Organizing and Participation	Open PDF (2.41 MB)
Chapter 13  Institutional Options for Reconstruction Management	Open PDF (2.4 MB)
Chapter 14  International, National, and Local Partnerships in Reconstruction	Open PDF (3.21 MB)
Chapter 15  Mobilizing Financial Resources and Other Reconstruction Assistance	Open PDF (4.9 MB)
Chapter 16  Training Requirements in Reconstruction	Open PDF (3.13 MB)
PART 2  Monitoring and Information Management
Chapter 17  Information and Communications Technology in Reconstruction	Open PDF (4.33 MB)
Chapter 18  Monitoring and Evaluation	Open PDF (2.48 MB)
Chapter 19  Mitigating the Risk of Corruption	Open PDF (2.22 MB)
PART 3  Information on World Bank Projects and Policies
Chapter 20  World Bank Response to Crises and Emergencies	Open PDF (846 KB)
Chapter 21  Safeguard Policies for World Bank Reconstruction Projects	Open PDF (453 KB)
Chapter 22  Financial Management in World Bank Reconstruction Projects	Open PDF (445 KB)
Chapter 23  Procurement in World Bank Reconstruction Projects	Open PDF (440 KB)
PART 4  Technical References
Disaster Types and Impacts	Open PDF (655 KB)
Disaster Risk Management in Reconstruction	Open PDF (1.12 MB)
Matrix of Disaster Project Features	Open PDF (517 KB)
Glossary	Open PDF (914 KB)
Index	Open PDF (588 KB)

Handbook Guiding Principles

1. A good reconstruction policy helps reactivate communities and empowers people to rebuild their housing, their lives, and their livelihoods.
2. Reconstruction begins the day of the disaster.
3. Community members should be partners in policy making and leaders of local implementation.
4. Reconstruction policy and plans should be financially realistic but ambitious with respect to disaster risk reduction.
5. Institutions matter and coordination among them improves outcomes.
6. Reconstruction is an opportunity to plan for the future and to conserve the past.
7. Relocation disrupts lives and should be minimized.
8. Civil society and the private sector are important parts of the solution.
9. Assessment and monitoring can improve reconstruction outcomes.
10. To contribute to long-term development, reconstruction must be sustainable.
11. The last word: every reconstruction project is unique.