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This country profile is part of a series of 49 priority country briefs developed by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the Global Support Programme of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF).

The Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy looks to 2050 and recommends actions that Rwanda can take to ensure prosperity in a changing climate and uncertain energy future.

This year's Indian national education day asserts that education includes a right to safer education. In his article, Vishal Pathak of AIDMI, questions 'how safe?' and outlines the 'simple and very important principles for safer eduction' in line with disaster risk reduction...

'The most vulnerable during a disaster, are the young people and elderly,' said Islam Misiraliev, Head of Batken District Emergency Situations Department. 'With the right training, though, those same children can become an asset in times of need.'...

'The evaluation of submarine landslides as potential tsunami sources along the U.S. East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico and the investigation of submarine canyon systems in the Atlantic are ongoing projects,' said, Jason Chaytor, U.S. Geological Survey research marine geologist...

Seventy rain gauges are being installed in the Philippines by The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) in order to to improve the country’s flood forecasting system...

Punya Sagar Marahatta reports on the community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) approach to building resilient communities - particularly of earthquake-resilient buildings - highlighting that 'awareness at the community level is not the challenge, rather challenges are the resources to build resilience.'...

The Forensic Investigations of Disaster (FORIN) methodology, aims 'to answer the question of why, when there is so much science related to hazards and risk, do [disaster] losses continue to rise,' said Jane Rovins, executive director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR)...