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Displaying 13 of about 13 resultsThe COVID-19 pandemic has served to reveal the systemic nature of risk and highlights the exposure of these systems to all hazards. Its unprecedented cascading effects have impacted all sectors and levels of our economies and societies. The Global Assessment Report 2019 (GAR) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction convey the reality that i…
The global COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of disruption to education, impacting over 90% of the world’s student population: 1.54 billion children, including 743 million girls. School closures and the wider socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on communities and society also disrupt children’s and young people’s normal support systems, l…
This article, discusses how the global COVID-19 pandemic has challenged different development sectors, including education. In this article, two main analyses are provided: one on the biological hazards of the pandemic in the context of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015−2030, which analyzes the overall impacts on the education sector…
This report is a compendium of understanding, concepts, experiences and lessons of disaster risk management (DRM), emergency response planning and capacity building in Nepal. It also provides a chronology of the development of DRM processes in the country including government's initiatives in creating suitable policy and legal environments for effective…
This user-friendly handbook provides an overview of several 'natural' disasters that occurred in the world in 2005, and contains good practices submitted by ADRC member countries to share knowledge among relevant stakeholders in order to contribute to global disaster risk reduction, in regard to the progression on the implementation of the Hyogo Framewo…
This study was conducted to review eight major natural disasters in Indonesia that were followed by outbreaks of infectious disease. Results emphasize the importance of integrated health education in schools and community-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) plans, including information dissemination, to create resilient communities. Water-borne and air-…
The objective of this qualitative study was to explore the perspectives of school and preparedness officials on the feasibility of implementing a range of social distancing practices to reduce influenza transmission during a pandemic. In the summer of 2017, 36 focus groups were conducted by teleconference and webinar lasting 90 min with s…
The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) issued new guidance to help protect children and schools from transmission of the COVID-19 virus. The guidance provides critical considerations and practical checklists to keep schools safe. It also advises national and local a…
This study examines and assesses the crisis communication of U.S. colleges and universities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic using the best practices framework. The COVID-19 pandemic started in January 2020 and has rapidly spread around the globe. Among the institutions at the forefront of responding to COVID-19 are U.S. colleges and universities. T…
This document provides essential information on how to prevent child and maternal deaths, diseases, injuries and violence. Its last chapter specifically addresses child protection in emergencies, such as conflicts, disasters or epidemics, delivering the information and support children and their family members may need to prepare for and cope with such…
This report describes the national emergency management system of Saint Lucia and presents 2011 NEMO activities, achievements and challenges. It also discusses a five year strategic plan and several mitigation, planning and preparedness programs and projects related to disaster management, school safety, climate change adaptation, risk assessment, publi…
A framework in which the Indian government has laid out an action plan for reducing the country's vulnerability to potential hazards that are relevant to India, including: environmental disasters such as earthquake, landslide, flood, drought, cyclone, cold wave, heat wave, chemical disaster, fire, epidemic or pest attack; technological and sectoral disa…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has made the assessment that COVID-19 (coronavirus) can be characterised as a pandemic and the virus has now spread to many countries and territories. While a lot is still unknown about the virus that causes COVID-19, what is knows is that it is transmitted through direct contact with respiratory droplets of an…