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A VisionFund field officer conducts financial training for the Imbereheza Gatobotobo savings group in Rwanda. Financial education is a crucial component of VisionFund’s financial inclusion efforts.
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Edgar S. Martinez
Women's financial empowerment builds climate resilience
Women are leading the way in building climate resilience. When women have access to financial services, they strengthen their communities, reinvesting most of their income into their families and local economies, driving resilience from the ground up.
A map of North and Central America, Pacific Ocean, Australia with recent earthquakes location depicted as dots by the ESRI real time detection service.
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Dickie Whitaker
Open risk, shared resilience: Exploring open-source catastrophe modelling as more than just a technical choice
Open catastrophe modelling is making risk understanding more affordable, accessible, and inclusive. This is more than a technical evolution. When catastrophe models are free, modular, and transparent, they can be adapted, improved, and applied anywhere.
Double exposure portrait of young woman hand wiping sweat with summer heat wave background
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Martyn Clark
A smart tool beating urban heat with actionable insight
The Global Heat Resilience Service offers cities neighbourhood-level intelligence, not global averages – because they need to know where heat will hit hardest, who is most at risk, and what to do about it.
People are seen voting at a polling station during Mexico’s first judicial election in 2025
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Erik Asplund
When disasters disrupt democracy: The impact of extreme weather on the 2024 super-cycle year of elections
Disasters and extreme weather events disrupted 20 elections at different levels in 15 countries in 2024. These included meteorological, hydrological, climatological, and geophysical disasters that damaged or destroyed critical infrastructure.
Early Warning system loud speaker with cloudy sky, Hokkaido Japan
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Nashin Mahtani
When the warnings don’t work, but the Wi-Fi does: How communities are rewriting the future of climate response
While global efforts have poured resources into improving forecasting and modelling, a critical question remains: What use is a forecast if it is not trusted or relevant?
Tree branches
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Sarah Hendel-Blackford
Changing the principles that guide how we assess and respond to systemic risks: Learning from pilots
What values do you apply in daily life that guide your actions? Whether implicit or explicit, many of us have a set of values, beliefs or principles for how we lead our lives.
Launch ceremony of the Women I Tok Tok Tugeta (WITTT) network
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Flora Vano
Ni-Vanuatu women leading inclusive disaster risk reduction and response
One of the greatest achievements Flora Vano has witnessed while working in disaster risk reduction (DRR) is the power of diverse ni-Vanuatu women coming together to strengthen women's participation and leadership in humanitarian architecture.
Mini buoy which is part of the CoastalSense network
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Giovanni Cynthia Pradipta Hilman Arioaji Ida Bagus Oka Agastya Ni Nyoman Era Jumantini
CoastalSense: Empowering community with low-cost technology for coastal resilience
CoastalSense, an initiative by U-INSPIRE Indonesia, uses low-cost, community-led technology to deliver real-time data for disaster resilience, empowering villages to take charge of their future.