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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.

Here are five ways countries ensure persons with disabilities are not left behind when the next disaster strikes.
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Who shares the responsibility to reduce our communities’ exposure to the impact of disasters?

A person living in the Asia-Pacific is four times more likely to be hit by a catastrophe compared to someone living in Africa. The risk surges to 25 times higher compared to a resident in Europe or North America. The International Day for Disaster Reduction reminds that we are all responsible for reducing the risks and the number of people affected by natural disasters.

Habitat for Humanity International
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Climate change and the migration crisis

Central to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, notably the eradication of poverty, is reducing the number of people affected by disasters by 2030. This is a key target of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and is the focus of this year’s International Day for Disaster Reduction on 13 October.

Huffington Post Inc.
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Stéphane Hallegatte, Lead Economist, World Bank, the
Resilience for the most vulnerable: Managing disasters to better protect the world’s poorest

In his “The People of the Abyss,” novelist Jack London describes in grim detail a devastating storm that rocked London in the early 20th century

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Kirstine Dale, Head , Met Office
Harnessing weather and climate science to build the resilience of vulnerable communities
The Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) programme is one of the initiatives, supported by UK Government, designed to tackle the challenges posed by severe weather and our changing climate.
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Amanda Lamont, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience
Evacuation plans must consider gender and diversity in communities

There is no ‘out of the box’ template for effective evacuation planning. The experience of a disaster event is unique to each community, and affects

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Bangladesh: CARE has set out an example for urban resilience

A conference on urban resilience jointly organized by 16 humanitarian organizations was held during the first week of October, with one session in particular focusing on women's engagement in urban resilience building. CARE has been working towards empowering women as a force of resilience instead of as the vulnerable part of the community.

CARE International
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Building resilience to support restitution of displaced persons with Displacement Solutions

UN-Habitat and Displacement Solutions have signed an MoU outlining a framework for collaboration to build the resilience of human settlements. The collaboration will include research, policy, advocacy and project design and implementation, including joint design of project concepts, proposals and detailed project implementation documents.

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
Philippines Lessons Learned from Typhoon Yolanda
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Philippines: Lessons learned from Typhoon Yolanda: an assessment of the Post-Yolanda short and medium-term recovery and rehabilitation interventions of the government

This document is an assessment of specific aspects of the Philippines' short and medium-term recovery from the Typhoon Yolanda.

World Bank, the
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