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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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Prepared International (PPI) participated in the first workshop of DARE (Deployment and Engagement of Resources and Citizens for European Emergency Response) in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Prepared International (PPI)
Indigenous Yika rangers start a controlled burning operation using drip torches in Australia
Research briefs

Research from The Nature Conservancy, the University of California, Berkeley and the USDA Forest Service details how wildfires could be leveraged to increase forest resilience to future high-severity fires across the Western United States.

Nature Conservancy, the
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This exercise will take place from 3 to 24 March 2026, bringing together scientific institutions, national authorities and civil protection partners to strengthen early warning systems and emergency response capacities.

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO)
A Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) volunteer, during an early warning drill in Chila village, Bangladesh
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As climate impacts intensify across Bangladesh, adaptation efforts must address not only infrastructure and ecosystem-related risks but also the social structures that shape vulnerability and resilience.

Global Center on Adaptation
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The Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance, an IFRC partner organization, has posted an Urban Heat Library mini-site as a “collaborative space dedicated to sharing knowledge, tools, and best practices related to urban heat".

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
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Documents and publications

The Country Climate and Development Report provides analysis and recommendations on how Laos can achieve sustained development while responding to climate change.

World Bank, the
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Documents and publications

This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) identify priority investments to strengthen resilience in flood risk management, resilient rural livelihoods, sustainable natural resource use, and sustainable energy access.

World Bank, the
Earthquake-hazard exposure of residents with potential access and functional needs in the United States thumbnail
Documents and publications

The descriptive analysis summarized in this United States case study addresses identifying and integrating spatially explicit data for AFN-related residential populations, earthquake hazards, and county and county equivalents for the conterminous.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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