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.

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The following articles can be republished under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO Deed.

Sohanur Rahman, Founder & CEO, YouthNet for Climate Justice

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

Jeroen Jansen, Evidence Aid
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.
Olga Pilifosova, Manager, Adaptation Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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.
Jason Von Meding, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle, the

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Mosselmans, Head of Humanitarian Policy and Practice and Programmes, World Food Programme

A DFID-funded consortium research programme asked crisis survivors what we could do better in the design and delivery of humanitarian response

Sarah Colenbrander, Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), International Institute for Environment and Development

A new report explores how cities can increase their resilience and resource efficiency – but highlights possible tensions between these two

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