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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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Ilan Kelman, Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at University College London, England and Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, University College London

Is it normal to return to normal?

After a disaster, we often hear about the need to bounce back, to return to normal, and to restore the pre-disaster state. How sensible is this?

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Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, Stanford University

Urban migrants and disaster risk: Concern Worldwide’s work with the pavement dwellers of Dhaka

I worked as Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction documentation officer from 2012-2014, and travelled to Bangladesh to review Concern’s

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Sohanur Rahman, Founder & CEO, YouthNet for Climate Justice

Bangladesh: Youth at the forefront of community-based early warning systems

The effects of a changing global climate are already being felt in Bangladesh, which is ranked second on the climate change vulnerabilities index

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Jeroen Jansen, Evidence Aid

Disaster risk reduction and evidence: A worrying trend

In the DRR sector, the limited concept of ‘best’ or ‘good’ practice seems to be or is becoming the dominating, and almost religiously adhered to dogma, at the expense of a more robust evidence-based approach.
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Olga Pilifosova, Manager, Adaptation Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

How disaster risk management and climate adaptation propel progress towards the SDGs

Sione Fulivai, from the government of Tonga, described his country’s coordinated approach to development which merges adaptation and DRR throughout all levels of government.
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Jason Von Meding, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle, the

Sacred Cows of Cancun (and some elephants in the room)

The Sendai Framework for DRR, like the SDGs and the Paris Agreement, represents a global consensus to address pressing issues for humanity. In May

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Go Takahashi, Founder & President of Little Bees International, NGO Little Bees International

Improving environmental security is vital to reduce disaster risk

Disaster risk reduction has been placed in the mainstream of international society’s discussions of development, based on the Sendai Framework that

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

Supporting vulnerable girls to become resilient girls

Lesly, from the Piura region of Peru, covers her face in a blanket during the hour long walk through the dusty desert to reach school. A few months

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