Inclusion

In a series of side events to the 6th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Bangkok, Thailand, from June 22 to 26, 2014, the Nippon Foundation and other global organizations, including Rehabilitation International, the Disability inclusive DRR Network (DiDDRN), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP), jointly called for the promotion of disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction...

The purposes of the event were to increase awareness and visibility of disability inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and to create an opportunity to discuss the collective approach to the inclusion of the rights of persons with disabilities in the post-2015 framework for DRR. It was co-organized by The Nippon Foundation, the International Disability Alliance (IDA), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Disability inclusive DRR Network for Asia and Pacific (DiDRRN)...

This guideline document is dedicated to persons with disabilities in the Asia Pacific Region who, in the face of the ever increasing occurrence of natural disasters, tsunamis and armed conflicts, are now demanding their right to be at the table planning

In Spanish:

Esta guía  tiene como objetivo ser una herramienta para la toma de decisiones y la formulación, monitoreo y evaluación de políticas y estrategias de Reducción de Riesgos de Desastres (RRD) enfocadas en Desarrollo de la Primera Infancia (DPI)

Indigenous women and rural women play a very important role in addressing climate change, specifically in efforts to ensure food security in their households and their countries, as well in climate change adaptation efforts. The impacts of climate change affect everyone in a different way but nevertheless gender discrimination makes women especially vulnerable to these negative effects.

This paper is based on the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which states that climate change is impacting food security now and that it is no longer a hypothetical future scenario.

Acknowledging that the

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 120, November 2014:

This issue focuses on the need for the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (or HFA2) to provide mechanisms which address the exigencies of urban risks. It highlights policy discourses and

In Spanish:

Este folleto presenta la Coalición para la resiliencia de la niñez y la juventud de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (CORELAC), una alianza estratégica de organizaciones y redes con cobertura regional en América Latina y el Caribe, trabajando para