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Building and supporting the capacity of nations and communities to confront disaster, including: learning and training support to people, organizations and institutions
Viet Nam: Government leads region in climate change challenge
9 Mar 2010, IRIN
Serious efforts are under way to respond to the impact of climate change in Vietnam but a lack of capacity and resources remains a challenge, experts say. Vietnam is the country most threatened by rising sea levels, according to World Bank studies...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 1.2 [PDF, 110Kb]Dedicated and adequate resources are available to implement disaster risk reduction plans and activities at all administrative levels
- Indicator 3.4 [PDF, 102Kb]Countrywide public awareness strategy exists to stimulate a culture of disaster resilience, with outreach to urban and rural communities
- Indicator 5.1 [PDF, 98Kb]Strong policy, technical and institutional capacities and mechanisms for disaster risk management, with a disaster risk reduction perspective are in place
- Regional Training on Disaster Inventories: Towards developing capacities for risk reduction in the Arab region08-11 Mar 2010, Egypt (Cairo)
- Workshop on cross regional learning on indigenous knowledge on disaster risk reduction (DRR)08-11 Mar 2010, Bangladesh
- Roundtable: Humanitarian NGOs in a changing world: How do we adapt?15 Mar 2010, Brussels (Brussels)
- MSc- Community wellbeing in disaster and developmentNorthumbria Univ, United Kingdom (Newcastle)
- Disaster risk management: the case of earthquakesUNIGE, Switzerland (Geneva)
- Masters in development and management (disaster studies)ACDS
From ISDR System and other DRR actors
- Plan for Haiti : UNISDR's Praveen Pardeshi in Geneva2010, CTV
- Tsunami - building better for next time2009, UNISDR - AP
- BBC World Debate: ‘Prevent or React’2009, BBC
- Head of climate changeUnited Kingdom (Brighton), IDS
- Project coordinator - Disaster risk reduction staff capacity developmentUnited Kingdom (Oxford), Oxfam GB
- Disaster risk reduction consultant (several positions)Global, IRC
External Online Resources
- Action pour la protection des personnes et des biens en Afrique
- Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM)
- British Red Cross: Better prepared after the tsunami
- CADRI: UN Disaster Management Training Programme manuals collection
- CAP-NET: Capacity building for integrated water resource management (IWRM)
- CAP-NET: IWRM and climate change
- Con los pies en la tierra: a DPAE educational resource on earthquake in Bogotá (in Spanish)
- ECDPM: knowledge & innovation - capacity development
- FAO and emergencies, from prevention to building back better
- Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
- HelpDesk for Integrated Flood Management (IFM HelpDesk)
- International Recovery Platform (IRP)
- NZAID: The Pacific strategy 2007-2015: reducing vulnerability
- Pakistan: Disaster Preparedness and Response Team (DPART-SAR) online resources portal
- Selemat Project
- Sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region
- Tearfund international learning zone (TILZ): disaster risk reduction
- The gender and disaster sourcebook
- Training material: climate change vulnerability & adaptation (C3D project)
- Women preparing for disasters Bangladesh
- World Bank: resources for development practitioners
Find or contribute curricular, extra-curricular and public awareness materials on disaster prevention and school safety for primary, secondary, vocational, community-based education and public awareness.
Officially declared national coordinating multi-sectoral and inter-disciplinary mechanisms for advocacy, coordination, analysis and advice on disaster risk reduction.