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Displaying 90 of about 123 resultsBy Priyasha Kaul, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ambedkar University Delhi
With the coronavirus pandemic continuing its spread around the world, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, announced a three-week complete nationwide lockdown of 1.3 billion people on March 24. The government advised people to observe social distancing even bef…
A group of 200 Eastern African women journalists will soon be connected through an on-line resource hub addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and providing online training materials on how to cover the outbreak. The hub will also include a data base with reference media content and links to good practices on reporting sanitary emergencies…
By Jane Dyson, Febe De Geest, and Craig Jeffrey
Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown for India’s 1.3 billion people. With just four hours’ notice, the government instructed everyone to remain in their homes, banned public events, closed schools and colleges and shut commercial and industrial outle…
By Niha Masih
Dharavi’s unexpected turnaround is credited to customized solutions and strong community engagement.
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India is third behind the United States and Brazil in confirmed coronavirus infections, but its new cases are climbing at the fastest rate in the world, according to Bloomberg News. For Dharavi to turn a corner in th…
By Bedoshruti Sadhukhan
Bedoshruti Sadhukhan looks at how responses to the coronavirus pandemic in Indian cities are helped or hindered by cities’ underlying resilience – and what we can learn about bracing for future crises.
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted normal life all over the world. While there are reports of rejuvenation of nat…
By Annie Banerji
Lowering risks from blistering summer heat may be difficult this year with most of the country's 1.3 billion people forced to stay indoors
NEW DELHI, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With little access to air conditioners or parks during the coronavirus lockdown, India's poor - from farmers to slum-dwellers - could face dead…
By Melissa Winkler, IFRC
Concerns over water and vector-borne diseases are mounting in northeastern India, where devastating flood waters are starting to recede, leaving behind contaminated water sources and conditions ripe for mosquitoes to breed.
In the state of Assam, an estimated 1.7 million people have been impacted by severe monsoon rains and fl…
13 October 2016, GENEVA –The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today marked International Day for Disaster Reduction by recognising five outstanding examples of successful efforts to reduce disaster mortality.
Today marks the beginning of the “Sendai Seven Campaign: Seven Targets, Seven Years…
What explains the rapid spike and then sharp decline of cases of the April-to-June wave?
India emerged in June and July of 2021 from a particularly savage second wave of COVID-19, with total confirmed cases at about 32 million and more than 400,000 deaths. But this could be a dramatic under-counting. Alternative estimates have put e…
The first wave of COVID-19 in India – in the summer of 2020 – was efficiently flattened by a rapid country-wide lockdown. A consistent drop in case numbers from September 2020 to February 2021 allowed a cautious but smooth return to what was almost normal life.
But the ensuing second wave – starting in March 2021 – proved catastrophic, with over 4…
This brief distils best data practice recommendations through consideration of key issues involved in the use of technology for surveillance, fact-checking and coordinated control during crisis or emergency response in resource-constrained urban contexts. The authors draw lessons from how data-enabled technologies were used in urban COVID-19 response, a…
Background
The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), established in 1986, is a non-profit, autonomous, regional organization, international in status and non-political in management, staffing, and operations. ADPC has been created for scientific, educational, developmental, and humanitarian purposes that work to build the resilience of people and…
Rationale
The Program for Strengthening Preparedness for Emergency Response and Recovery in India (PROSPER-India) is a three-year program funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and implemented by Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) in the State of Bihar, India. The program continues to support three key departments; Disaster Managemen…
Department: Preparedness for Response and Recovery (PRR)
Program: PROSPER India
Rationale:
Program for Strengthening Preparedness for Emergency Response and Recovery in India (PROSPER-India) seeks to assist the Disaster Management Department (DMD) of the Government of Bihar in preparedness actions for the management of COVID19 in the state. ADPC has…
ERIA Research Project Report 2011-08:
This report consists of the papers from ERIA’s research project on “Economic and Welfare Impacts of Disasters in East Asia and Policy Responses” in Fiscal Year 2011-12. It aims to improve our understanding on how the past and potential impacts of disasters on productions, demands, regional development, and welfare…