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The DRR Community Voices share personal stories and perspectives from the disaster risk reduction trenches on reducing risk and building resilience.

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Majuli island
Blog

Homolata Borah: "We need to understand the importance of solution-based approaches"

Dr. Homolata Borah has been working towards reducing disaster risk for some of the most vulnerable communities living in the world’s largest inhabited river island of Majuli in the state of Assam in India.
Muliagatele Filomena Nelson
Blog

Muliagatele Filomena Nelson: “There are seats at the climate table for Pacific women”

Muliagatele Filomena Nelson is the Climate Change Adaptation Advisor at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. She helps Pacific women become active participants in the process of international climate negotiations. 
Mr Christos Stylianides, Greece's Minister Climate Crisis speaking during the Action-Oriented Dialogue organized in Athens, Greece on 21 October 2022.
Interview

“The climate crisis is already here, it's real” – and Greece is taking it seriously

Christos Stylianides, Greece’s Minister for the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, tells PreventionWeb about his unique role, and how his ministry is tackling adaptation and resilience.
Mauritius Port Sud-Est
Interview
Adair Ackley Gina Bonne

Gina Bonne: Coordinating island states to cope with the climate emergency

Careers in resilience: As Head of the Environment and Climate Change Department for the Indian Ocean Commission, Gina Bonne assists island states to manage climate change-related issues and disaster risk reduction.
WIN DRR
Interview

Women leaders in DRR share tsunami stories

Women leaders in DRR share tsunami stories.
Maselina Iuta Fiso portrait photo
Interview

Maselina Iuta Fiso: “If we don’t inform or teach those with disabilities how to protect them from disaster, we're leaving them behind”

Maselina leads advocacy campaigns with the Deaf Association of Samoa engaging stakeholders such as the Samoa Meteorological Office, Ministry of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the National Disaster Management Office.
Poster CREWS Tonga
Blog
CREWS

Strengthening multi-hazard early warning systems in Tonga

In response to the unprecedented volcano and tsunami, Kingdom of Tonga develops Tonga Mobile Applications Community MHEW and Response System (MACRES) through the CREWS Accelerated Support Window.
A photo of two laughing children wearing traditional Mongolian dress in a field with cashmere goats
Blog
Ronald Jackson - UNDP Sára Csapó - UNDP

What if early warning systems are used to trigger social protection measures in times of crisis?

What if early warning systems are used to trigger the allocation of resources for social protection measures in times of crisis?

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