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Este documento presenta el tema de la niñez, desplazamiento forzado en colombia y gestión del riesgo de desastres. En este contexto, la Alianza por la Niñez Colombiana y la Fundación Plan desarrollan un estudio que tiene por objetivo

This document showcases case studies of programmes and projects that address climate and disaster risks, through climate change adaptation, disaster risk management and/ or greenhouse gas emissions reduction. This compendium highlights lessons learnt at

'As Nepal rebuilds, it will be necessary to ensure that preventative building practices are followed' regardless of economic class, writes Andrew Nelson, of the University of North Texas. 'Thinking beyond Nepal to the next 'disaster,' it will also be critical for global media to draw attention to the structural inequalities at the core of disasters'...

This technical paper represents an initial attempt to assess the risk of disaster-induced displacement in eight countries in South Asia – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It presents results from the

Nepal's devastating earthquake was the disaster experts knew was coming. Just a week ago, about 50 earthquake and social scientists from around the world came to Kathmandu, Nepal, to figure out how to get this poor, congested, overdeveloped, shoddily built area to prepare better for the big one, reports the Times on India...

Martin Sajdik, the President of the Economic and Social Council said, 'As a 'least developed country', Nepal can ill afford these setbacks on its path to sustainable development.' He stressed that the tragedy in Nepal underlined the need to make disaster risk reduction a critical component of the post-2015 development agenda. 'The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 stressed that: 'It is urgent and critical to anticipate, plan for and reduce disaster risk in order to more effectively protect persons, communities and countries,''...

Through a school-based DRR project in Bohol, Save the Children aims to help schools and communities to be better prepared for disasters to create safe learning environment, saving lives, and increasing resiliency of target beneficiaries reaching 5,400 schools. Participants of the summer camp included Grades 4 to 6 students from 25 schools in Loon and Maribojoc towns, which are among the hardest hit during the October 2013 magnitude 7.2 earthquake...

Elizabeth Ferris, Co-Director, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, writes an opinion piece on climate change from the perspective of migration and displacement.