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Capacity Development
The process by which people, organizations and society systematically stimulate and develop their ability over time to achieve social and economic goals, including through improvement of knowledge, skills, systems, and institutions - within a wider social and cultural enabling environment.
Practical Action: New climate and vulnerability handbook
2 Feb 2012, Practical Action; AlertNet
Practical Action's 'From Vulnerability to Resilience (V2R)' framework analyses the causes of vulnerability and how disaster risk reduction, climate change impacts, governance and livelihoods interact and affect resilient outcomes...
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
- Community-based disaster risk management01-05 Feb 2012, Nepal (Kathmandu)
- Mainstreaming gender in climate change adaptation and mitigation13-24 Feb 2012, Philippines (Cavite)
- Negotiating climate change: from Durban and beyond13 Feb - 06 Apr 2012, web-based (web-based)
- Máster universitario en análisis y gestión de emergencia y desastreUniv. de Oviedo, Spain (Oviedo)
- Master of Disaster Management / Post Graduate Diploma in Disaster Management / Certificate Programme in Disaster ManagementDU
- Capacity building certificate programme in disaster risk managementINTER-CEPT
Community-based disaster risk reduction/WASH: training manual2010, Mulungushi Univ
Mainstreaming disability into disaster risk reduction: a training manual2009, ECHO; Handicap Intl
From vulnerability to resilience: a handbook for programming design based on field experience in Nepal2012, Practical Action
Roadmap to disaster reduction and response2012, Global Relief
- Head of national society support and knowledge developmentHaiti (Port-au-Prince (Base Camp)), IFRC
- Consultant - Disaster risk reduction education - Technical writer, education resources & training materialVanuatu (Port Vila), Save the Children AUS
- Technical specialists - Resilience in the Limpopo river basinMozambique , ARD
External Online Resources
- Action pour la protection des personnes et des biens en Afrique
- Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM)
- Best practices in adapting to climate change: Online professional development community
- 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
- CDC: Emergency preparedness and response (USA)
- Con los pies en la tierra: a DPAE educational resource on earthquake in Bogotá (in Spanish)
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- ECDPM: knowledge & innovation - capacity development
- Eduriesgo (in spanish)
- FAO and emergencies, from prevention to building back better
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- NZAID: The Pacific strategy 2007-2015: reducing vulnerability
- PACC-Oasis - Projet adaptation au changement climatique au Maroc pour des Oasis résilientes
- Pakistan: Disaster Preparedness and Response Team (DPART-SAR) online resources portal
- RRA - Risk Reduction Africa (in English, French and Portuguese)
- 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.