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DRR Community Voices

The DRR Community Voices share personal stories and perspectives from the disaster risk reduction trenches on reducing risk and building resilience.

  • Our posts from both practitioners and academics reach a global audience and can influence policy, practices and approaches.
  • We invite you to propose your own blog and submit it for review.
  • Most articles can be republished under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO Deed.
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Kirstine Dale, Head , Met Office

Harnessing weather and climate science to build the resilience of vulnerable communities

The Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) programme is one of the initiatives, supported by UK Government, designed to tackle the challenges posed by severe weather and our changing climate.
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Amanda Lamont, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience

Evacuation plans must consider gender and diversity in communities

There is no ‘out of the box’ template for effective evacuation planning. The experience of a disaster event is unique to each community, and affects

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Jessica Cooke, Resilience and Climate Change Policy Officer, Plan International

Severe floods highlight the resilience of school girls across South Asia

The August 2017 flooding across Bangladesh, India and Nepal is a disaster on a major scale, causing more than 1,500 deaths and affecting at least 41

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Huong Ha, Singapore University of Social Sciences

Risk governance and disaster impacts in Asia

According to the EM-DAT database 0.7 million people were killed, 1.7 billion were affected (nearly 30% of the world population) and total assets of US

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Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director, World Bank Group

Engineering our way out of disasters – The promise of quality infrastructure

The last few weeks have been a stark reminder the how natural disasters can undermine precious development progress in an instant.
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Stéphane Hallegatte, Lead Economist, World Bank, the

Resilience for the most vulnerable: Managing disasters to better protect the world’s poorest

In his “The People of the Abyss,” novelist Jack London describes in grim detail a devastating storm that rocked London in the early 20th century

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Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director, World Bank Group

Improving climate and weather forecasting to build disaster resilience

Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity. In Africa alone, 90% of all disasters in recent decades have been driven by weather

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Maarten Van Aalst, Director, Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre

Can Bangladesh beat the rising risks of climate change?

That Bangladesh was relatively unlucky in this year’s monsoon is surely a measure of just how much progress the South Asian country has made in the

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