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A group of people walk trought the heat along the Makeni highway in Sierra Leone
Blog
Pious Mannah
Translating risk into local languages: lessons from Sierra Leone
The blog highlights how overcoming language and literacy barriers through translation, audio tools and gamified learning has strengthened inclusive disaster risk communication and community resilience in Sierra Leone.
Woman with white umbrella waiting signal for cross walk during rain in the evening.
Blog
Ilan Kelman
Can risk be managed without measuring it?
Many risks require measurement for management. Just not all of them.
Children in Colombia colouring in COPE Disaster Champion books
Blog
Martha Keswick Lina Suárez
Empowering children with free DRR materials: COPE Disaster Champions, 10 years in the making
In each of the COPE books, the squad heads off on missions to disaster-prone areas to teach other kids how to be ready for disasters, how to become agents of change in their communities and deliver a clear key DRR message.
A man is shooting videos at the waterfront of Heng Fa Chuen on the east of Hong Kong Island when rough waves hit the promenade during Severe Typhoon Mangkhut's strike in 2018.
Blog
Ilan Kelman
Is nature angry with us?
To avoid disasters, our actions ought to be about cooperating and living with nature – and with each other – without harm, including without harming ourselves. We should recognise and implement the worldviews that humanity and nature are intertwined.
AI Learning and Artificial Intelligence Concept.
Blog
Dr. Sanjay K. Srivastava
Using artificial intelligence to fast-track achieving the Sendai targets
In a warming world where extremes are becoming the norm, AI, and what comes after it, offers us that possibility-if we choose to deploy it not just for efficiency, but for foresight, fairness, and resilience.
Villagers on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, perform traditional ceremonies in the shadow of Mt Yasur, an active volcano.
Interview
Maëlle Calandra
Uncovering local realities: a spotlight on a disaster anthropologist
Maëlle Calandra, a disaster anthropologist and a research fellow was interviewed by PreventionWeb to find out how disasters on the island of Tongoa and the socio-cultural realities of its people interact in such a hazard-prone area.
Square scale and house object on blue background
Blog
Olivia Nielsen Ommid Saberi
From risk to resilience: the new metric housing markets need
In December 2025, Zillow retired its climate risk score in the United States of America, stating that it seemed inaccurate and was hurting home sales. The decision has ignited debate across both the real estate industry and the DRR community.
Children of slum women sit in a group on the floor at a Delhi daycare.
Blog
Shiree Khan
From silence to strength: reclaiming Bhopal’s legacy
For the world, Bhopal is linked to the 1984 industrial gas leak, when toxic methyl isocyanate spread silently. Forty years later, the author believes we must expand the narrative not to forget, but to reclaim Bhopal as a living classroom of resilience.