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Aerial view of the old town in Klaipeda, Lithuania
Blog
Domas Miežetis Ana Gabrielė Sabancevaitė

Lithuanian youth activists and schools mark Earth Day with workshops on risk education

In Klaipėda, Lithuania, a group of young climate and ecology activists decided to mark Earth Day by inviting 300 students to develop a disaster prevention and response plan to avoid a climate apocalypse in Lithuania.
Inclusive early warnings for all
Blog
Kevin Blanchard

We need to work on our early warning development process to ensure LGBTQIA+ people are included

LGBTQIA+ people are often some of the most marginalised in disasters. We need to build early warning systems that are inclusive of all of society – and that involve marginalised communities in all stages of their development.
Children in Monrovia, Liberia
Blog
Gemeh Buway-Roberts

Mapping Liberia’s resilient future

In Liberia, challenges abound, but progress will prevail. Joining MCR2030 is helping its cities build resilience to disease outbreaks, and reducing the impacts of natural hazards.
Forest restoration project, The Gambia
Blog
Fatoumatta L Sisay

Communities, contingency plans, and nature-based approaches: The Gambia’s path to resilience

The Gambia is building resilience, to reduce the impacts of hazards, so that they needn’t result in disaster. The country's National Disaster Management Agency recently joined MCR2030 as a way to make The Gambia more resilient to hazards.
Women leaders
Blog

Women leaders in DRR working for inclusion

Profiles of advocates working to reduce the risks faced by people living with disabilities, and to make disaster risk reduction, essential services and whole societies across the Asia-Pacific region more inclusive for people living with disabilities.
Majuli island
Blog

Homolata Borah: "We need to understand the importance of solution-based approaches"

Dr. Homolata Borah has been working towards reducing disaster risk for some of the most vulnerable communities living in the world’s largest inhabited river island of Majuli in the state of Assam in India.
Muliagatele Filomena Nelson
Blog

Muliagatele Filomena Nelson: “There are seats at the climate table for Pacific women”

Muliagatele Filomena Nelson is the Climate Change Adaptation Advisor at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. She helps Pacific women become active participants in the process of international climate negotiations. 
Mr Christos Stylianides, Greece's Minister Climate Crisis speaking during the Action-Oriented Dialogue organized in Athens, Greece on 21 October 2022.
Interview

“The climate crisis is already here, it's real” – and Greece is taking it seriously

Christos Stylianides, Greece’s Minister for the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, tells PreventionWeb about his unique role, and how his ministry is tackling adaptation and resilience.
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