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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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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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Rob Roggema, Professor of Sustainable Urban Environments, University of Technology Sydney

Design charrettes for post-disaster design

The first thoughts after a disaster are never with an interesting design process for the hit area. First concerns need to be with the people that

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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

Climate change and vulnerability

We hear so much these days about climate change, often with suggestions of it inevitably causing more disasters. Science, however, paints a much more

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Nurmalahayati Nurdin, Doctoral researcher at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London

Improving school resilience: Who are the key actors? A Perspective from Indonesia

Indonesia is an archipelago country which experiences various catastrophes. Over the years, the casualty rate and the cost of natural disasters have

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Susanna Tol, Senior Communications and Advocacy Officer, Wetlands International, Wetlands International

We need to use nature smarter than we have in the past

Are ecosystem based solutions to reducing risk gaining ground? And what can be done to bring these solutions from small pilots to scale and integrated

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William Lacy Swing, International Organization for Migration

How long must communities in disaster prone areas remain hopeful?

2015 was the year of hope for the global migration and humanitarian communities. 

That year, we saw the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development call

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