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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.

Here are five ways countries ensure persons with disabilities are not left behind when the next disaster strikes.
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How to make women safer in disasters? Attack inequality

Women's vulnerability to disasters is a sign not of weakness but of inequality, and barriers to women taking the lead in protecting themselves must be removed, top politicians and officials told a U.N. conference on Saturday...

Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
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UNICEF: Climate justice - The road to Sendai and Paris

'A key thing is how to get back to normalcy and get back on track. How quickly this happens after a disaster depends on what we do in terms of preparedness beforehand,' said UNICEF's Regional Emergency Advisor, recalling recent typhoons Hagupit and Haiyan, recovery and education efforts...

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Documents and publications
ESCAP guide on disability indicators for the Incheon strategy

This document provides the world with the first set of regionally agreed disability-inclusive development goals. The Incheon strategy goals cover a range of development areas, including disaster risk reduction (DRR). It calls for disability-inclusive

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
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RISK Award first-hand news: best project proposals 2014

This document summarizes a selection of the best projects proposals for the Risk Award 2014 which focus was people in emergency situations during natural disasters. The project proposals range from safer primary schools and the inclusion of special-needs

Munich Re Foundation
Research briefs
US: Charting Colorado’s vulnerability to climate change

Colorado could see more infectious disease, negative impacts on the elderly and people living in poverty, as well as stresses to water, cattle and crops as byproducts of future climate change, according to a comprehensive new report commissioned by the Colorado Energy Office...

Colorado State University
University of Colorado
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Children and disasters: understanding impact and enabling agency

This report contributes to building an improved understanding of how different intensities of disaster affect children in different contexts and the structures needed to realise the benefits of engaging children as active citizens and agents of change at

Plan International (PI)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
World Vision International
Save the Children International
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Climate change, natural disaster and vulnerability to land displacement in coastal region of Bangladesh

International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, volume 5, n. 2, February 2014, pp. 150-159:

This paper discusses vulnerability and population displacement issues, reviews existing policy frameworks, and suggests necessary policies and

International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies
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Making the economic case for safe school

This report investigates the economic argument for investing in safe schools - programmes which include measures to protect children’s lives by building safe infrastructure and educating children around early warning, evacuation, and wider disaster risk

Plan International (PI)
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