Inclusion

Five Balkan countries are boosting their skills to improve hospital safety and reduce human and economic losses during disasters and health emergencies. Balkan countries are challenged by frequent natural disasters so capacity building and training is imperative: from knowledge sharing to ensuring health care services are safe, effective and available to those in need.

Malteser International and the Lift You Up group have officially launched the Malteser International’s Disability Inclusive Community-based Disaster Risk Management Manual using DAISY. The launch took place during a conference held in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, attracting various representatives in the field of disaster risk management and disability inclusion.

IOM is stepping up efforts to lessen community vulnerability to climate-related threats in Rwanda by enhancing community resilience to natural disasters and climate-related threats. In collaboration with Ngororero District officials, 220 young people from vulnerable households will be trained in setting up a small business, or offered further training and job placements.

Since 2012, the International Organization for Migration has been working closely with the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), implementing the Climate Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Education (CADRE) Program in 15 high schools and school communities. In this context, reverse osmosis units were recently handed over in an official ceremony.

Ahead of the Marrakesh conference, a grouping of the poorest countries warned they are especially vulnerable, with rising seas, worsening drought and floods, and the spread of tropical diseases threatening public health and food security. Public funding provided exclusively for adaptation has barely reached $10 billion a year - a pittance compared with what they need.

This briefing explores climate-induced migration and displacement, which are seen to be falling between the policy gaps. Existing international frameworks and national policies are yet to make the crucial link between climate change impact on the

The United Nations Population Fund is congratulating participants at the just-concluded Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction for issuing the Delhi Declaration that reiterates a regional blueprint, as well as the expanded gender-sensitive Asia Regional Plan for Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

The Asian Development Bank and the Government of Mongolia today signed a $3 million grant to pilot community-based approaches to disaster risk management to increase herders’ resilience to dzuds, fires, and other disasters. The project responds to the government’s need to shift towards a holistic approach emphasizing disaster risk reduction and community engagement.