First responders in the Philippines practice rescue operations as part of a USAID-funded disaster risk reduction training program.

Ramsey Rayyis, American Red Cross

Key Documents

• USAID/OFDA Disaster Risk Reduction Brochure: Building Resilience and Investing for a Safer Tomorrow (3mb PDF)
• USAID/OFDA Disaster Risk Reduction Calendar for 2015 (1mb PDF)

Pounds of Prevention

Benjamin Franklin is famous for the adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Today, we are faced with great challenges brought about by increasing population and urbanization, a changing climate, and a demonstrated increase in the frequency and severity of natural disasters. To continue to tackle these challenges in the face of increasing disaster risks, what has become clear is this: We need more than an ounce of prevention, we need pounds of prevention!

• Focus on Afghanistan (397kb PDF)
• Focus on Bangladesh (314kb PDF)
• Focus on Bangladesh II (357kb PDF)
• Focus on Brazil (354kb PDF)
• Focus on Colombia (307kb PDF)
• Focus on Guatemala (342kb PDF)
• Focus on India (268kb PDF)
• Focus on Indonesia (303kb PDF)
• Focus on Kenya (394kb PDF)
• Focus on Locusts (305kb PDF)
• Focus on Malawi (428kb PDF)
• Focus on Money & Microfinance (428kb PDF)
• Focus on Paraguay (380kb PDF)
• Focus on Peru (366kb PDF)
• Focus on the Philippines I (282kb PDF)
• Focus on the Philippines II (317kb PDF)
• Focus on South Africa (381kb PDF)
• Focus on South Asia Monsoon Flooding (386kb PDF)
• Focus on St. Lucia (352kb PDF)
• Focus on West Africa Cholera (278kb PDF)

FY 2016 Disaster Risk Reduction Fact Sheets

• Africa DRR Fact Sheet (302kb PDF) and map (499kb PDF)
• East Asia and the Pacific DRR fact sheet (393kb PDF) and map (281kb PDF)
• Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia DRR Fact Sheet (144kb PDF) and map (509kb PDF)
• Latin America and the Caribbean DRR fact sheet (440kb PDF) and map (736kb PDF)
• South Asia DRR fact sheet (291kb PDF) and map (249kb PDF)

FY 2015 Disaster Risk Reduction Fact Sheets

• Global DRR fact sheet (356kb PDF)
• Africa DRR fact sheet (337kb PDF) and map (496kb PDF)
• EAP DRR fact sheet (482kb PDF) and map (480kb PDF)
• EMCA DRR fact sheet (368kb PDF) and map (322kb PDF)
• LAC DRR fact sheet (368kb PDF) and map (322kb PDF)
• South Asia DRR fact sheet (294kb PDF) and map (225kb PDF)