Sierra Leone

This policy brief reflects on the participatory approaches adopted to improve knowledge of small-scale and everyday urban risks in Freetown, Sierra Leone, a city that continues to experience rapid urban development and population growth. The participatory

This publication includes case studies that demonstrate the courage and skills of women who have taken up leadership roles in different resilience-building initiatives across Africa and Asia. While it is important to understand women’s vulnerability to

This publication is a synthesis of lessons from more than a decade of Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming in urban geographic contexts. Based on research in Port au Prince, Haiti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nairobi, Kenya; and Freetown

This report focuses on understanding how civil protection organisations learn from direct or indirect experiences (events) and planned learning processes (exercises). An implicit assumption of the authors was that civil protection organisations should be

This publication is a synthesis of lessons from more than a decade of Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming in coastal geographic contexts. Based on research in Port au Prince, Haiti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nairobi, Kenya; and Freetown

This document includes papers which are contributions to the ‘Policy Debate’ section of International Development Policy, the review of the Graduate Institute of Geneva. In this section, academics, policy-makers and practitioners engage in a dialogue on

This study simulated policies for community-level response aimed at early screening all members of a community, as well as implementing travel restrictions to prevent inter-community transmission during outbreaks such as the Ebola 2014-2016 epidemic in