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.
Scientists may not see Mad Max-style 'water wars' ahead, but they nevertheless see strong relationships between conflict and climate change. 'We lack the last piece of the puzzle that says that climate change causes conflict, but we know that there is a relationship between the variables,' says Koko Warner from the Institute for Environment and Human Security at United Nations University...
This report presents the work carried out by CBM together with Nepalese Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs), in some of the worst-hit districts by the 2015 earthquakes.
Mercy Malaysia on 19 October signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NGC Energy for the School Preparedness Programme (SPP) aimed at minimising the risks posed by natural disasters in Malaysia. The one year programme set to kick off in February 2016 was the the first ever collaboration between the two organisations...
Weather-related disasters are increasing in strength and magnitude worldwide. Yet, if people and communities prepare for emergencies, they can reduce risk and damage, and save lives. In a small village in Central Tajikistan, simple measures like planting trees have helped stop floods, landslides and even avalanches. EC's humanitarian partner Mercy Corps worked with a community in Tajikistan to build their resilience to disasters...
European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)
For 11 years, the people of Manam Island, a volcano rising out of the Bismarck Sea around 15 km off Papua New Guinea's north coast, have waited to be resettled after fleeing devastating eruptions in 2004. In July this year, another eruption inflicted more suffering on several thousand people who had returned to the island from displacement camps on the Papua New Guinea mainland...
Este documento presenta un diagnóstico sociocultural con enfoque a niñas, niños y adolescentes sobre las estrategias de prevención, mitigación y gestión de riesgo practicados tradicionalmente entre los pueblos indígenas de la Región Autónoma
The UN refugee agency has joined 110 nations in pledging to strengthen steps to protect people displaced across borders by disasters and climate change and launched an overview highlighting its work in the area. 'Among the most important lessons derived from the Nansen Initiative is that states can prevent and prepare for increased displacement in future when the right policies are in place,' UNHCR said in a news release...
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Residents of a flood-prone community in Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé are deploying local knowledge to curb the risk of disasters and epidemics by tackling the trash that blocks drainage ditches.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
