Inclusion

New research that aims to assess the drivers of suffering from disasters across developing nations—with specific emphasis on gender relations—affirms that women are disproportionately impacted, but also reveals that women who are economically empowered have a disproportionately positive impact on disaster outcomes—reducing the overall number of people affected.

Live To Tell is the slogan for this year's International Day for Disaster Reduction on October 13 which is focused on reducing global mortality, the first target of the Sendai Framework. Housing is a big part of the solution in parts of the world exposed to cyclones and earthquakes. This is the inspiration behind the innovative Indian NGO SEEDS.

The Rockefeller Foundation's Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network initiative is a collective experiment with a range of activities that will together improve the ability of the cities to withstand, prepare for, and recover from the projected

As climate change causes more potentially catastrophic flooding across the globe, the need to predict what areas are the most vulnerable becomes more urgent. To do this, Cloud to Street is combining big data analysis, crowd sourced information, and satellite imagery to create an analysis of which communities are most vulnerable due to underlying social conditions.

This publication explores the contributions of science and technology in Asia. The first part evaluates the advancement of the science and technology in disaster risk reduction in 11 countries.

The second part of the report features 28 case studies and

Last year 19.2 million were displaced by natural hazards in 113 countries, the majority caused by extreme weather events due to record droughts, widespread flooding and 90 major tropical storms. Shifting from managing disasters to managing disaster risk is critical to meet the World Humanitarian Summit goal of halving the current number of internally displaced by 2030.

Governments at the UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants have adopted a landmark declaration that underlines the role of environmental degradation, climate change and disasters alongside conflict as drivers of the ongoing crisis.

The powerful tremor that struck Nepal in 2015 destroyed countless houses and public facilities. Trainings funded by the European Commission on earthquake-resilient construction techniques have enabled local masons and carpenters to build homes that can withstand earthquakes, equipping more than 50,000 people in targeted areas to rebuild and cope with future disasters.