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

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A call for taking adequate preventive measures against the landslide risk and implementing strong chains of disaster education...
New Era Publications Corporation
Disaster management experts emphasize the need for formulation of a long-time risk reduction plan...
National News Agency of Bangladesh
Over 400 children participated in a two-day event aimed at raising awareness on disaster risk reduction...
India Together

This project report from UNESCO provides details of the work completed under the “Educational materials for education for natural disaster preparedness in Asia-Pacific in the context of education for sustainable development” project. Details of the

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Three years on from the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers and staff are working with communities along the road to recovery...
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

This Study is part of DFID’s strategic effort to assess the significance of disaster risk in its development work. It aims to explore evidence on linkages between poverty alleviation, development and disaster risk reduction, and to establish why disaster

This study is intended to identify the linkages that need to be established between the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The aim of this review is to draw on existing initiatives to examine each of the eight

This publication provides 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.

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