Our Projects
Shiva B. Pradhanang
"In GHI's project, unlike most I have observed, the vast majority of project funds was spent here, in Nepal. GHI not only brought technical expertise, but, perhaps more important, introduced processes where decisions are made in the open, on the basis of merit and by consensus."
National Society for Earthquake Technology
Kathmandu, Nepal
GeoHazards International (GHI) believes both in international assistance and in local responsibility. GHI and its project partners make up a global network of people alarmed by the world's growing earthquake risk, aware of methods that could reduce human suffering, and determined to help. That help takes the form of raising awareness of risk, building local institutions to manage that risk, and strengthening schools to protect and train a community's future generations.
Since its first project in Quito, Ecuador, in 1992, GHI has worked in more than 20 countries. Learn more about GHI's pioneering projects from these short summaries below.
GHI's current projects:
- Provision of Seismic Risk Reduction Activities in Northern Haiti (Plan Nord), Haiti (2013-)
- Reducing Risk, Raising Awareness and Limiting Predictable Losses in Aizawl, India (2012-)
- Framed Infill Network (2011- )
- Improving School and Hospital Earthquake Safety in South Asia (2011- )
- Improving School Earthquake Safety in Rural Peru (2010 -)
- Tsunami Preparedness: Feasibility Study of Vertical Evacuation Structures in Sumatra (2009 - )
- Hospital Earthquake Safety in India (2009 - )
- School Earthquake Safety and Preparedness Training (Gurgaon, India) (2008 - )
- Sponsoring Professional Memberships (2008 - )
- Earthquake Engineering Training and Curricula in Pakistan (2007 - )
GHI's past projects:
- Discovering GEM's Beneficiaries' Needs (2010 - 2012)
- Delhi Earthquake Safety Initiative (2002-2008)
- Improving Seismic Safety for the Tibetan Community in Dharmsala (2006 - 2008)
- Tsunami Preparedness Guidebook (2006 - 2008)
- GHI-OECD School Earthquake Safety Policy Initiative (2004 - 2008)
- Disaster Preparedness Education Program in Turkish Schools (2004 - 2005)
- Central Asia Region Earthquake Safety Initiative (2002-2005)
- School Earthquake Safety in Gujarat (2001 - 2002)
- Global Earthquake Safety Initiative (1999-2001)
- RADIUS - Risk Assessment Tools for Diagnosis of Urban Areas against Seismic Disasters (1998 -2000)
- Kathmandu Valley Earthquake Risk Management (1997 - 1999)
- Urban Earthquake Risk Management in Central Asia and Caucasus Region (1996)
- Quito School Earthquake Safety Project (1995)
- Istanbul Earthquake Scenario Workshop (1993)
- Quito Earthquake Risk Management (1992 - 1994)
Please also see our project page at the National Academies for additional information.
