Building Resilience for All: Lessons from Assam for Asia

How does disaster risk reduction work in one of the important states of India: Assam? What kind of lessons can building resilience in Assam offer for Asia? This issue has a strategic list of activities and ideas.

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of 'Building Resilience for All: Lessons from Assam for Asia'. It highlights some of the major initiatives taken up by Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) and United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Assam. This issue focuses on the various areas on which ASDMA and UNICEF have worked in Assam such as children in emergencies, school safety, community based disaster preparedness, traditional coping mechanisms, etc.

The good work done by ASDMA and UNICEF offers a lot of lessons in resilience building for Asia, which suffers massive loss and damage due to disasters annually.

The challenges and opportunities in all these areas have been highlighted. The breadth and scope of all such initiatives bear testimony to ASDMA’s commitment to making a safe and resilient Assam.

This issue's contents includes:

1. Situational Analysis of Children and Women in Assam, 2016;
2. School Safety including SDMP and Mock Drills: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead;
3. Community based Disaster Preparedness; Challenges and Opportunities Ahead;
4. Integration Disaster Risk Reduction with Climate Change Adaptation;
5. Children in Emergencies;
6. Public Health in Emergencies;
7. Traditional Coping Mechanisms;
8. Earthquake Engineering;
9. The Journey of Assam Jatiya Bidyalay in Ensuring Safer Learning Environment to Children;
10. Hospital Safety Audit; and
11. Report on Commemoration of Child Protection Day in Assam.

Some of the best thinkers, researchers, experts, and activists, including Mihir R. Bhatt with AIDMI Team; V. K. Pipersenia, IAS, Chief Secretary, Government of Assam; and Dilip Kumar Dutta Choudhury with Gopen Barman, Assam Jatiya Bidyalay, Assam.

Theme: Building Resilience, School Safety, Children and Women, Disaster Risk Reduction, Hospital Safety.

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 146, May 2016