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This brief is based on an evidence gap map of interventions that aim to strengthen resilience against shocks, stressors, and recurring crises in low-and middle-income countries. This map was commissioned by USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security.
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
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New research by American scientists suggests the Black Summer fires were massive enough to influence the El Niño Southern Oscillation cycle. It’s one of the most important drivers of unusual weather over the entire globe.
Conversation Media Group, the
Satellite view of the wildfires in a field
Built from IBM’s collaboration with NASA, the watsonx.ai model is designed to convert satellite data into high-resolution maps of floods, fires, and other landscape changes to reveal our planet’s past and hint at its future.
IBM Corporation
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These resources explore the economic, social and environmental dividends of investing in disaster risk reduction.

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Implementation guides for the Sendai Framework
Learning from Past Disasters

On 6 February 2023, two earthquakes struck southern and central Türkiye, and northern and western Syria. The first had a magnitude of Mw 7.8 and the second of Mw 7.7.

Blog: DRR Voices

In Klaipėda, Lithuania, a group of young climate and ecology activists decided to mark Earth Day by inviting 300 students to develop a disaster prevention and response plan to avoid a climate apocalypse in Lithuania.
LGBTQIA+ people are often some of the most marginalised in disasters. We need to build early warning systems that are inclusive of all of society – and that involve marginalised communities in all stages of their development.
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030