RRI
Risk Reduction Index: Burkina Faso Case Study
DARA presented a new country case study of the Risk Reduction Index (RRI), carried out in Burkina Faso. The Risk Reduction Index aims to help governments, civil society and other actors understand the underlying risks that render communities more vulnerable to [...] Read more...
Presentation: Disaster risk reduction needs to be addressed more holistically by the humanitarian sector
DARA presented the Risk Reduction Index in West Africa at the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) weekly meeting in Geneva , 22 January. The IASC weekly meeting is organised by the IASC Secretariat to disseminate reports and promote debate on issues relevant [...] Read more...
Risk Reduction Index in West Africa
DARA presented the second report of the Risk Reduction Index (RRI), this time carried out in West Africa, in Madrid today. Read the full report The RRI aims to help governments, civil society and other actors understand the underlying risks that render communities [...] Read more...
RRI in international forums
DARA participated in the UNISDR Making Cities Resilient Campaign Partners’ Meeting, held in Barcelona, April 4-5, 2013. Approximately fifty participants were in attendance, representing a range of countries across the globe and different sectors, including [...] Read more...
Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
DARA participated in the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Third Session, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-13 May 2011. The biennial forum was held by the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and brings together stakeholders committed to disaster [...] Read more...
DARA’s RRI aims to mitigate impact of Haiti-like disasters
DARA continues to make progress in the development of the Risk Reduction Index (RRI) which will provide a means for measuring disaster risk reduction capacities and conditions in different countries. In the short term, this index methodology will be applied in [...] Read more...
RTVE Spain: Disaster expert Allan Lavell on the Haiti earthquake (Spanish) 
Allan Lavell is one of the world's top experts on urban and regional planning, and specializes in risk reduction and disaster prevention. He heads the development of DARA's Risk Reduction Index (RRI), a key project in the Disaster Risk Reduction Initiative (DRRI). Here he discusses the Haiti Earthquake on RTVE: La noche en 24 horas (Spanish) Read more...
Review of Risk Reduction Index
Leading experts from global and regional organisations gathered in Costa Rica in May to evaluate progress in the development of DARA’s new Risk Factor Index. The meeting conducted one of the first systematic examinations of the underlying risk factors in [...] Read more...