Learning about livelihoods is a guide to understanding and applying the sustainable livelihoods framework. It provides practical ideas on how to use this framework to inform development and project planning at different scales. This package represents a contribution to the field; it is a work in progress written by development...

In 2007 between July- November, unusually heavy rainfall led to flooding and water-logging across eastern and northern Uganda (Soroti, Amuria, Katakwi, Bukedea, Kumi, Lira and Sironko Districts), giving rise to a major humanitarian response across all sectors. About 20,000 households were severely affected and 58,000 people displaced. The floods also...

Weathering the Storm reflects current international practice in participatory risk assessment. It describes an approach to risk reduction that actively engages residents of informal settlements, as well as their civil society and government colleagues. This guide has been tailored to the disaster risk profile of the Wand to the cultural...

RADAR was developed between 2009 and 2010 by UCT/DiMP, following the completion of extensive research on six years of severe weather events and social violence in the Western Cape. The maps, tables and other information presented here represent almost ten years of focused ‘ex-post’ or postdisaster research in the Western...

From 2003 – 2014 the Langeberg Municipality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa was substantially affected by six flood disasters which resulted in almost USD 22 million in damages, caused one fatality and left a total of 6 424 people displaced. Severe weather events during this period had...