Capacity development

The process of developing technical skills and institutional capability to effectively reduce disaster risk and build disaster resilience.

Latest Capacity development additions in the Knowledge Base

Community based adaptation in action, project phase I

This summary report presents a project that was initiated by ADPC in 2005 with the FAO. It aims to develop methodology to better understand: how the anticipated climate change would affect the

Templates for developing plans for reacting to emergency situations including fire, floods, earthquakes, chemical spills, gas leaks, volcanic eruptions, bomb or arson threats, armed intruders, and missing children.

The Project “Disaster Awareness in Primary Schools” is an effort aiming to strengthen risk awareness in Indonesian Primary Schools and to prepare the school community to act in a way that the risk of becoming victim is reduced in case disaster strikes

This research paper represents the first systematic attempt to examine the effects of school-based interventions on children's sel-freported PTSD-related distress and coping ability following a series of volcanic eruptions in a sample of 112 children.

This workbook accompanies the 2.5 day training “Understanding and Using the Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic
Crises and Early Reconstruction.” It is designed to enhance knowledge, understanding and application of the Minimum

This publication is one of a series produced under the project "Living with risk - sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region", implemented by ICIMOD during a 15-month period in 2006 and 2007. The project was funded by the European

Institutions for rural development series, no. 5

This case study presents an assessment of livelihood adaptation to climate variability and change in the drought-prone areas of Northwest Bangladesh. The project, implemented under the Comprehensive

The primary objective of the Microinsurance Innovation Facility is to increase the availability of better insurance products for a greater number of low-income households.

Microinsurance is a mechanism aimed at protecting poor people against risk

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