DRR Community Voices

Globally, flooding accounts for the greatest amount of loss and damage out of all natural hazards. Indeed, between 1998 and 2017 there were 3,148 floods around the world, directly affecting over two billion people.

On the 25th of April, Cyclone Kenneth hit Mozambique at its peak intensity. It killed more than 600 people and displaced thousands.

Just 6 weeks

It has been close to a year since I experienced the proudest moment of my life. My voice speaking on behalf of 700 million others, reverberating

Youth are an integral part of our societies and resilient communities can’t exist if they are not involved in DRR strategies and policies. In the

The L'Aquila earthquake was the first Italian seismic disaster in almost a century to have an epicentre close to a major concentration of population (in fact, it was 3.4 km from the city's geographical centre).

Since 1986 a lot has happened: the focus has shifted from the management of disasters to the more proactive management of risks - in a multi-hazard, multi-stakeholder and fully integrated fashion.

Mineral processing leaves a significant quantity of residue that is dominated by tailings, which are mixtures of finely ground rock and fluid effluents.

When I was still a teenager – summer brave, full of sport, hot and bold – I hitchhiked from Lithuania to Armenia and back again. Outbound via the