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Preparedness

The knowledge and capacities developed by governments, response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to and recover from the impacts of likely, imminent or current disasters.

Preparedness action is carried out within the context of disaster risk management and aims to build the capacities needed to efficiently manage all types of emergencies.

This theme covers aspects related to preparedness, contingency planning, disaster response plans, prevention, anticipatory action.

What’s the difference between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster risk management (DRM)?

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How to do a VCA: a practical step-by-step guide for Red Cross Red Crescent staff and volunteers

This document is intended as a simple and practical guide for National Society staff and volunteers who wish to undertake a local-level VCA, as part of their community programming
strategy.

Vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA) is a method of

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
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Tanzania: Villagers encouraged to learn hazards of living near erupting volcano

Villagers living near Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano in Tanzania could use volcano risk reduction techniques as a primary tool to keep them safe from future explosive eruptions, scientists recommend...

United States Geological Survey (USGS)
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Call for standard indices to measure droughts

'Many agricultural drought indices are country- and sometimes even crop-specific, and are used as an early warning for decision-makers (governments and farmers),' said Robert Stefanski, WMO scientific officer...

The New Humanitarian
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Bangladeshi woman builds new life on higher ground

Julekha can build a more secure life for her family now that she has raised her house out of the reach of floodwaters. She learned how to do this through an 'emergency resiliency' course run by the government and WFP...

World Food Programme (WFP)
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Uganda: Rising temperatures threatening livelihoods

The water and environment ministry has prepared a National Adaptation Plan of Action (NAPA). The strategy aims to increase awareness within local communities...

The New Humanitarian
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Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in the education sector: Lao PDR, Philippines, Cambodia

These studies on impacts of disasters on the education sector in Lao PDR, Philippines and Cambodia builds an evidence-based rationale to raise awareness on integrating DRR concerns into education policies, programs and plans and to advocate for changing

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
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Call for comments and case studies: State-of-practice report on urban DRM

The Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI) is inviting members of the disaster risk management community to provide comments and input to its 'State-of-Practice Report on Urban DRM'...

Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative
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Floods, droughts and storms: a major threat for European countries

'The trend will probably continue to rise as floods and storms are expected to become more frequent and severe in the future in Europe,' said Professor Debarati Guha‐Sapir, director of the Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters...

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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