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Practical Action
- Organization type:Non-Governmental Organization
General contact information
- URL: http://practicalaction.org/
- Address: The Schumacher Centre for Technology & Development, Bourton on Dunsmore
Warwickshire - Postal Code: CV23 9QZ
- City: Rugby
- Country: United Kingdom
- Telephone: +44 1926634400
- Fax: +44 1926634401
- Email: practicalaction@practicalaction.org.uk
Mission & Disaster Reduction Profile
Practical Action was founded in 1966, is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which specializes in helping people to use technology to eliminate poverty. We believe in Technology Justice to create a sustainable world free of poverty and injustice with technology used for the benefit of all.
Practical Action is working in;
- Latin America; Peru and Bolivia.
- South Asia; Sri Lanka, Nepal, India and Bangladesh.
- Africa; Kenya, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and Sudan
- We also work through consultancy, partnership and networks in the developing world.
Practical Action is working in;
- Latin America; Peru and Bolivia.
- South Asia; Sri Lanka, Nepal, India and Bangladesh.
- Africa; Kenya, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and Sudan
- We also work through consultancy, partnership and networks in the developing world.
- Horn of Africa drought: Water shortages cause a year of fear
20 Jul 2012 - Practical Action: New climate and vulnerability handbook
2 Feb 2012 - Kenya: Climate change should be prioritized by the media as a critical concern
19 Dec 2011 - Practical Action: Aftermath at Durban
11 Dec 2011 - Innovations in disaster risk reduction
5 Oct 2011
Statements & Presentations
- Statements
- Toward resilience: a guide to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
2013 - Disaster risk management and reconstruction in Latin America
2013 - Riesgos de desastres y desarrollo
2012 - Building resilience in practice
2012 - From vulnerability to resilience: a handbook for programming design based on field experience in Nepal
2012 - Disaster risk reduction NGO inter-agency group learning review
2011 - From vulnerability to resilience: a framework for analysis and action to build community resilience
2011 - The Sphere project: humanitarian charter and minimum standards in humanitarian response
2011 - Coping with drought: research findings from Bulilima and Mangwe districts, Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe
2011 - The livelihoods centred approach to disaster risk reduction
2011 - Participatory Climate Risk Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (PCR-VCA): tools for operationalizing the Adaptive Livelihood Framework
2011 - Scaling up early warning system in Nepal: case studies and good practices
2010 - Sign of resilience
2010 - Climate change and agriculture
2010 - Why adaptation finance should be additional to Official Development Assistance
2010 - Governance for community-based adaptation
2010 - Adaptation in international climate negotiations
2010 - Technology for adapting to climate change
2010 - Understanding disaster management in practice: with reference to Nepal
2010 - Integrating approaches: Sustainable livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
2010 - Climate change adaptation in Peru: the local experiences
2010 - Building back better: delivering people-centred housing reconstruction at scale
2010 - Lessons from Aceh: key considerations in post-disaster reconstruction
2010 - The economic cost of climate change in Africa
2009 - South Asia Disaster Report special Copenhagen issue: a South Asian perspective on climate change and increased disaster risk
2009 - Good practices for community resilience
2009 - Unmitigated disasters: the victims of man-made catastrophes
2009 - Understanding climate change adaptation: lessons from community-based approaches
2009 - Promoting adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh
2008 - Promoting adaptation to climate change in Nepal
2008 - Promoting adaptation to climate change in Sri Lanka
2008 - Earthquake resistant housing: technical brief
2008 - Climate change and poverty
2006 - Livelihood centered approach to disaster management: a policy framework for South Asia
2005 - Guidelines for planning in the re-building process: resource pack
2004 - Gender dimensions in disaster management: a guide for South Asia
2004 - Development in disaster-prone places: studies of vulnerability
1999
- DIPECHO VI Awareness building workshop on children and young people are partners of DRR
10-15 Oct 2011 - Integrating approach: sustainable livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
03 Dec 2009 - Climate change and the implications for people and poverty training course
21 May 2009
- Policy and practice adviser (Disaster risk reduction and climate change)
11 Jun 2012 - Policy and practice director
11 Apr 2012 - Consultants (climate change, livelihoods, disaster risk reduction & natural resource management...)
30 Sep 2011 - Regional director - East Africa
5 Oct 2010 - Consultants: Climate change; water, sanitation & environment; livelihoods, disaster risk reduction & natural resource management
27 Sep 2010 - International programme coordinator: Reducing vulnerability programme
12 Sep 2010 - Research assistant: Reducing vulnerability programme
5 Jul 2010 - Consultant for livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and natural resource management
7 Nov 2009 - Volunteer: Reducing Vulnerability Team
2 Nov 2009 - Research assistant - Reducing Vulnerability Team
2 Nov 2009
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Working Areas
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- Governance
- Education & School Safety
- Social Impacts & Resilience
- Media
- Capacity Development
- Urban Risk & Planning
- Early Warning
- Disaster Risk Management
- Information Management
- Insurance & Risk Transfer
- Community-based DRR
- Water
- Health & Health Facilities
- Food Security & Agriculture
- Risk Identification & Assessment
- Climate Change
- Economics of DRR
- Gender
- Vulnerable Populations
- Recovery
- Civil Society/NGOs
- GIS & Mapping
- Environment
- Structural Safety
- Public-private Partnerships
- Hazards
- Cold Wave
- Drought
- Tsunami
- Cyclone
- Land Slide
- Heat Wave
- Flood
- Earthquake
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