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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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Manual on disability inclusive community-based disaster risk management in DAISY format ready

As part of a training course on Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) with Malteser International in March 2016 in Ha Noi, members of the Lift You Up group have successfully converted the “Manual on disability inclusive community-based disaster risk management” to DAISY format, with the Vietnamese version to be produced soon based on the modifications made to the English version.

Malteser International
Bhubaneswar, India. Photo by Flickr user Rita Willaert CC BY-NC 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/upUSk
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India's Odisha readies pioneering plan to combat deadly heat

From stopping work at brick kilns on very hot days to issuing five-day advance warning of heat waves, the Indian state of Odisha is readying a pioneering action plan to prepare for increasingly deadly summer heat, officials said. The plan his based on the Indian city of Ahmedabad's heat resilience initiative, begun in 2013.

Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
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The implications of land issues for climate resilient informal settlements in Fiji and Papua New Guinea

This research aims to understand the implications of land issues for the climate resilience of informal settlements in Fiji and Papua New Guinea, both of which have more than 80% customary tenure. Findings from the research are intended to inform people

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
(From left) Mr. Toshihiro Nikai, Chairman of the General Council of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and Mr. Jan Eliasson, UN Deputy Secretary-General, at the launch of World Tsunami Awareness Day which will take place on November 5
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World Tsunami Awareness Day launch in New York

World Tsunami Awareness Day will be commemorated this year for the first time, and every year thereafter, on 5 November. The Japanese Permanent Mission at the UN in New York marked the launch with an event which also marked the first anniversary of the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - New York UNHQ Liaison Office
Local leaders in Thailand are committed to strengthening their cities' resilience in the face of increasing climate-related risk (Photo: UNISDR)
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Thai municipalities strive for disaster resilience

Mayors and deputy mayors from 15 municipalities in Thailand have committed to reduce disaster risks and greenhouse gas emissions in order to strengthen the resilience of their cities.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
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The role of physical therapists in disaster management

This report highlights the need for physical therapist involvement in disaster management and particularly in emergency medical teams (EMTs). It outlines in separate sections the three phases of disaster management most relevant to physical therapists

World Confederation for Physical Therapy
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Rapid and near real-time assessments of population displacement using mobile phone data following disasters: the 2015 Nepal earthquake

PLOS Currents Disasters 2016, Edition 1, doi: 10.1371/currents.dis.d073fbece328e4c39087bc086d694b5c:

This analysis provides an unprecedented level of information about human movement after a natural disaster, provided within a very short timeframe after

Public Library of Science
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Environmental migration in Morocco: stocktaking, challenges and opportunities

This brief calls for more research to better understand the linkages between climate change and migration in Morocco and suggests integrating environmental migration as a cross-cutting policy issue within the Moroccan domestic policy. The hosting of the

International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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