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Displaying 15 of about 46 resultsThe volunteers enable residents to identify risks where they live – themselves – and use that knowledge to prevent future disasters.
Christina Rosario de Oliveira is one of a dozen volunteers that monitor rainfall and river levels in Itaipava, a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Affectionately called ‘the stone that cries’, the valley…
“We can help communities become earthquake safe by developing and implementing a procedure to manage and minimize risk,” Om says.
She has been working towards earthquake risk reduction since 2009. She says the focus of the program is building community resilience. Om started her career as a teacher in a remote part of Nepal but she knew early on…
Most glaciers worldwide are melting due to climate change, but some glaciers in northern Pakistan are behaving in a very different - and dangerous way.
Glaciers form in places where snow piles up faster than it melts. The layers of snow compress and slowly change from light, fluffy crystals to hard, round ice pellets. This eventually fuses into a…
New study suggests four strategies to help reduce risk and improve resilience for communities living in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
By Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Ronak B. Patel, and Bernard McCaul
Addressing the circumstances for the more than two billion people living in fragile and conflict affected contexts (FCAC) is cruc…
Rumana says the intensity and frequency of the floods have increased in recent years and it’s creating greater vulnerabilities for women and girls. “The impact that it has on the lives of the people is significant,” she says. “Besides tropical cyclones we get tidal surges and that also adds to the number of displacements.”
“Besides tropical cyclo…
A tragic story emerged during the floods that hit Europe in July 2021: given no warning to evacuate, 12 people with disabilities drowned when flash floods hit their residential home in the German town of Sinzig.
This was not the first time people with disabilities have been left behind when disaster strikes. Across Europe and Central Asia, people with…
In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, aid distribution was difficult. With roads, airports and ferry ports destroyed or severely damaged, the most impacted areas were inaccessible. But when aid finally started to arrive, some households in Tamil Nadu were left behind. The Aravanis, a minority gender within the region, were not included in t…
Organisations like Mahila Housing Trust and Slum Dwellers International work with women to design safe, resilient housing solutions.
“Women in informal settlements are generally treated as beneficiaries instead of actually being included every step of the way. We need to be transformative and include women as part of the new normal,” says Sheela Patel,…
“I was interested in the work of disaster risk reduction because when I was a small girl, a cyclone hit my community,” Ruth recalls. “We ran around trying to find places to stay safe. That is where my interest in disasters began.”
Today she works as a coordinator for Makira Ulawa province with the National Disaster Management Office o…
Bringing together local stakeholders, investment, and international cooperation creates opportunities to transform from risk to resilience.
In the Indian Ocean off the coast of Kenya, lies the small island of Wasini. The equatorial sun shines bright. The ocean is turquoise and inviting. Powdery soft sand covers the beaches. Dense, mangrove forests line…
Following two disasters, the city of Kraljevo, Serbia established a new disaster risk reduction framework, calling for the local community to take a more active role.
In 2010, Kraljevo was hit by a 5.4. magnitude earthquake, and the impact on the city was devastating. Almost 16,000 individual residential buildings and 8,262 collective housing facilitie…
Asia and the Pacific is the most disaster-prone region in the world. Women across the region are helping us to understand and reduce the risk of disasters we face. This collection of inspiring women are finalists for the Women’s International Network for Disaster Risk Reduction Leadership Awards. The diversity of their stories reflects the breadth of so…
Milan is experiencing a period of profound renewal that has demonstrated the great level of adaptation of the city. Nowadays, public administrations face more than ever the so-called ‘wicked problems’, complex and articulated challenges among which climate change stands out. In the last 50 years, mean annual temperatures in Milan increased by 2°C, and h…
“Intersectionality is at the core of our work,” Pratima says. “Multiple identities get intersected in many layers. Too-often indigenous women with disabilities are invisible, voiceless and excluded within our own constituencies.”
To amplify the voiceless, she works on gender, disability, indigenous and youth issues. “We advocate with the government. Al…
What are the five resilience attributes that help resilience flourish?
After decades of increasing frequency and amplitude of extreme events –from rising global environmental change to COVID-19– the world finally recognizes the shift of the Earth system from a relatively stable state to a relatively unstable one. COVID-19, to put it simply, is a manife…