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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13 Feb 2017

Kirsi Madi, Director, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Haiti and why we need more women managing disaster risk

Six months after Hurricane Matthew devastated Haiti, we know that it made the situation of women and girls even more precarious.

A Government-led

25 Jun 2015

Margareta Wahlström, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Swedish Red Cross

How can the world better prepare for natural disasters?

It is no longer business as usual. From major global businesses to SMEs to small local producers, economic losses from disasters are a growing threat

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