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Ensuring an all-of-society engagement and partnership for DRR through empowerment and inclusive, accessible and non-discriminatory participation, paying special attention to people disproportionately affected by disasters, especially the poorest.

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Supporting community-led research on risks and creating policy platforms to enhance Nairobi’s governance for resilience

The briefing analyses three interlinked initiatives that highlight the aspiration to move from simply providing a database for decision support.

Urban Africa Risk Knowledge
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Three weeks left to register for the Diversity in Disaster conference!

The Diversity in Disaster conference has been planned to engage emergency management practitioners, policy-makers and community services leaders and volunteers with the latest research on disaster resilience. It will help advance the aims of the emergency management sector in better understanding and engaging with diverse communities.

Victorian Council of Social Service
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Diversity and inclusion: Building strength and capability literature review

The purpose of this initial literature review is to provide a theoretical basis for the research project Diversity and Inclusion: Building Strength and Capability, being undertaken as part of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre

Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre
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Improving resilience of vulnerable people affected by Typhoon Damrey through building resilient houses

Quang Nam province, supported by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Viet Nam Disaster Management Authority (VNDMA), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Republic of Korea, in partnership with the Viet Nam Red Cross Society, held a ground-breaking ceremony for the first 5 of 80 resilient houses in Quang Nam Province.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Urban risk or resilience? Opportunities for improving informal settlements in urban Africa

With rates of rural-to-urban migration reaching record highs, more than half of the urban residents in sub-Saharan Africa live in informal settlements, where they lack basic infrastructure and access to critical resources. Integrated projects like Pelling’s Urban ARK seek to build more resilient communities in cities and informal settlements.

Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program
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Guidelines for fire prevention, preparedness and response in informal settlements, residential and non-residential buildings

This guideline was developed with an aim to promote best practices of prevention, preparedness and response that will reduce fire-related hazards among the residents of informal settlements, residential and non-residential buildings in Lebanon, and

Save the Children International
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Marginalized and minority groups consideration in NDRA

This document is the eleventh in a series of special topics for consideration, as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment published by UNISDR. This section provides a general introduction to inclusive risk assessment

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Co-learning disaster resilience toolkit: A person-centred approach to engaging with refugee narratives and practices of safety

This toolkit aims to strengthen the preparedness and resilience of refugees and humanitarian entrants to natural hazards in Australia. It describes a 'co-learning disaster resilience' approach, which is a systemic process for informing, engaging and

University of Wollongong
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