Health & health facilities

This paper reports on the Preparedness for Climate Change Programme (PfCC) which aims at strengthening risk reduction measures and preparing for the challenges of climate change. It is intended for countries particularly vulnerable to climate change to

This report documents the results and impact of CARE Brasil's work in the coast of Bahia. It addresses the ability of vulnerable communities living in the countryside and in the coast to adapt to social, political and economic changes, as well as climatic

Philippine Senator Legarda convenes a consultative meeting for Asian parliamentarians to discuss actions they can take to increase the resilience of Asian countries to disasters and climate change, including promoting investment in disaster risk reduction and disaster resilient schools and hospitals...

This manual is intended as an aid to reduce one of the major sources of earthquake-related damage and losses in hospitals: medical equipment and supplies, contents, architectural elements, and building utility systems. It provides information on how to

As part of its long-term commitment to corporate responsibility in India, Swiss Re has partnered with an international non-profit organisation, GeoHazards International, and a New Delhi-based non-profit organisation, GeoHazards Society, to launch a multi-year campaign to improve hospital earthquake safety in India...

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This document reports on the rationale for selection of climate change scenarios and climate data for the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) global analysis, which aims to better understand what adaptation to

A Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) run workshop was held this week in Grenada, as part of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) funded project to mainstream health disaster risk reduction in the health sector of Caribbean Community Member States (CARICOM), reports the Barnacle...

A central tenet of IRI is that providing people and institutions with climate information is just one step in a larger effort - building the capacity of scientists to generate tailored information and helping users ask for information relevant to them is another. Recent IRI workshops and its Climate Predictability Tool (CPT) help 'not just from climate scientists perspective, but also from the perspective of people working in agriculture, health, and risk.'...