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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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The Philippines prepare for Super Typhoon Maysak

Unicef has pre-positioned essential supplies including water kits, hygiene kits, water purification units, school tents, student and teacher materials, child friendly space tents, medical supplies, nutritional therapeutic food items to combat malnutrition, oral rehydration salts, tarpaulins and generators for at least 10,000 families...

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
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Children and youth and disasters: Victims or 'agents of change'?

'On balance, the Sendai Framework is good for children and youth, certainly better than failure to agree would have been. Let’s hope for even stronger action in Addis Ababa, New York and Paris, with binding targets and clear financial commitments', writes ChildFund's Mark McPeak in an opinion piece on Devex...

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ABD: Climate change heightens Pacific Islands’ vulnerability

'The category five cyclone that devastated Vanuatu could well be the new norm,' said Vinod Thomas, Director General of Independent Evaluation at ADB. 'Pacific countries are extremely exposed to climate change, but have the least resilience to adapt. ADB, with other development partners in the region, must meet this issue with a sense of great urgency,' he added...

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Global Post-Disaster Studies: Planning, Development and Reconstruction with Vulnerable Populations
Degree resilience and the power to adapt to stress, adversity and trauma Description This online course explore effective, long-term solutions for: - Bad governance and poverty - Contamination of soils, air and water HIV/AIDS and other disease pandemics -
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Lineamientos metodológicos para análisis de vulnerabilidad en función de elementos esenciales

La presente publicación es el tercer volumen de una colección de reflexiones y aportes metodológicos en torno a la vulnerabilidad, delinea la metodología para analizar la vulnerabilidad a partir de la identificación de elementos esenciales, para luego

European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)
Secretaría Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Marco de referencia conceptual sobre vulnerabilidad territorial

La presente publicación forma parte de una colección de reflexiones y aportes metodológicos en torno a la vulnerabilidad. Este documento es el primero de la serie y consta de dos partes en la primera recopila algunas vertientes conceptuales sobre

European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Secretaría de Gestión de Riesgos
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Japan: Students think outside the bowl with designs for emergency toilets

Two high school students from Tokushima Prefecture have developed a cardboard Western-style sit-down toilet to help disabled or elderly people who might have difficulty with squat toilets, reports Japan Times. 'Compared with water and food, toilets tend to be left out of disaster-preparation measures, but they are a matter of human dignity and human life'...

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Peru: Flood resilience project hit by fatal landslide - Practical Action

Practical Action initiated a project designed to make those living on the banks of the Rio Rimac more resilient to flooding and better prepared to cope when a disaster strikes. 'We believe that in future people living on the banks of the Rio Rimac will be far better equipped to survive such floods,' said Colin McQuistan, Policy and Practice Advisor...

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