Volunteerism for disaster risk reduction

Citizen engagement is key for climate adaptation, yet knowledge on how to develop, share and apply it is fragmented. The article maps advances and highlights barriers such as weak contextualisation, uneven implementation and institutional constraints.

While research has focused on volunteers in disaster response and recovery, less attention has been paid on how organizations involved in disaster risk management can support volunteers in leading and coordinating community-based disaster risk reduction.

The outcome of a two-year research project with the Norwegian Institute for Social Research, the report investigates local capacity to manage disaster risk and emergencies in Norway.

The Mexican Flood Resilience Project, led by the Mexican Red Cross, aims to increase preparedness and strengthen the flood resilience of communities in the state of Tabasco.

Due to the frequency of natural hazards, communities in Bangladesh are all too often fighting for survival in the face of floods, tornadoes, cyclones, sea surges, and droughts. Resilience Agents have made significant contributions in resilience-building

This article examines the policies and institutional arrangements for integrating informal volunteers, the methods and tools for their engagement, and the reported benefits and challenges of involving volunteers in disaster management.

An Indonesian volunteer group, named the Avengers, aims to educate villages, spreading awareness on disaster preparedness.

Collaborations of civic society and public administration play a key role for successful emergency and disaster management.

What is emergency volunteering going to look like in 2030? How (and by whom) is it going to be organised? How can the emergency management sector best enable the value of volunteering for communities - before, during and after an emergency - into the

After 2017’s record year of billion-dollar disaster events and additional hurricanes and fires in 2018, a new study reveals that inconsistent non-profit resources across different jurisdictions had impacted disaster recovery efforts.