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

Linking Preparedness Response and Resilience (LPRR) – how can humanitarian responses better promote community resilience?

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

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

Sustainable cities: the nexus between resilience and resource efficiency

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

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Kevin Blanchard, Senior Environmental Scientist in Global Disaster Risk Reduction, Public Health England

The Sendai Framework: Using data to meet health-based indicators

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 was agreed in 2015.  Since then the global disaster risk reduction community has been

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David Satterthwaite, Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development, International Institute for Environment and Development

Addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in urban areas

For the billion urban dwellers living in informal settlements, there are many risks. Those who are more susceptible to these risks, or less able to

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Victoria Sauveplane, Senior Program Manager, Action Against Hunger - Canada

SMARTer nutrition levels for disaster risk reduction

When disaster hits, assessing the severity and magnitude of its impact is often determined through household surveys based on the two most frequently

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

Nine principles for incorporating DRR into community resilience

As an international humanitarian organisation committed to eradicating extreme poverty, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience are both central

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