Inclusion

By 2030, without significant investment into making cities more resilient, climate change may also push up to 77 million more urban residents into poverty, according to the Investing in Urban Resilience report. To prevent such losses, the international communities and countries must prepare in advance for better disaster and crisis recover.

Uganda has launched a national plan to coordinate resource mobilization and implementation of priority targeted cholera prevention and control interventions. They focus on social mobilization and community empowerment, access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene, surveillance and laboratory confirmation of outbreaks, prompt case management and infection control.

The government of Kenya is keen to minimise the impact and cost of disasters to ensure the country can achieve its development goals. Finance has an essential role to play in reducing these costs – both before and after disaster strikes.

This 20th Anniversary, edition (Volume 21, No. 1) of the Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies (AJDTS) includes Research Papers on: disaster preparedness among wheelchair users; children coping with a sequence of earthquakes and aftershocks

The Gifts of Culture board game is a role-playing simulation set in a diverse cultural community. Players represent various groups living in the flood-prone valley. Although their views and ideals differ, they are driven by the same goal - to improve