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Capacity development

The process of developing technical skills and institutional capability to effectively reduce disaster risk and build disaster resilience. Capacity development involves learning and various types of training, but also continuous efforts to develop institutions, political awareness, financial resources, technology systems and the wider enabling environment. Training and capacity building is a key disaster risk management activity.

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A street and houses in Thimpu, the capital city of the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan
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Ten engineers and architects from Bhutan spent six days in Christchurch, enhancing their expertise in damage assessment and retrofitting of critical urban infrastructure, drawing lessons from the city’s post-quake reconstruction lessons.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Security actors around the world are beginning to recognize the risks posed by information manipulation surrounding extreme weather, climate resilience, and the clean energy transition

Center for Climate and Security, The (Council on Strategic Risks)
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Documents and publications

This study highlights gaps in all-hazards disaster preparedness approaches and examines how disaster preparedness planning can systematically draw upon social vulnerability triage.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Person at the village near Viti Levu Island; Fiji
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Fiji has completed training officials from roughly 30 ministries and agencies to use a new online system that, for the first time, will let the government track disaster risk reduction work across every sector from a single platform.

Pacific Community
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Armenia has taken a major step toward strengthening its national disaster preparedness and climate resilience. Government institutions, international organizations and development partners gathered for the EW4All National Roadmap Validation Workshop

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
The saline wells of coastal Puri, India, experiencing water contamination and bankruptcy
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Organising preparedness training for water utilities in relation to cholera is a critical step in preventing and reducing outbreaks. It is essential because cholera is waterborne.

Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)
A group of people are stood in line for a group photo. They are outside standing on asphalt. There are palm trees behind them and a long, curved building in the background of the photo on the right-hand side
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Seychelles hosted a regional peer learning workshop from 18 to 20 January 2026 on building methodological foundations for national disaster tracking systems powered by DELTA-Resilience. Participants from Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar attended.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
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Documents and publications

This document provides practical guidance for assessing and addressing climate-related risks such as heat, flooding, and extreme weather to ensure continuity of social care service.

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