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Displaying 15 of about 53 resultsThis research was commissioned by the EVD Preparedness Consortium comprising Save the Children, Concern Worldwide and Internews in South Sudan. It provides information on community perceptions about the Ebola outbreak and preparedness activities in Yei River State. The study was commissioned based on the recognition of the importance of integrating…
This paper wants to understand ‘how community engagement is used for infectious disease prevention and control during epidemics’. In doing so, it reviews evidence from previous epidemics by drawing on findings from five previous epidemics - Ebola, SARS, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), Zika and H1N1 - and identifying what app…
Background:
The COVID-19 crisis has been a lesson for many cities about planning for the unexpected. Adding to climate and man-made disasters, the pandemic has put high stress in urban systems around the world. Only in the past 6 months, Australian cities have dealt with multiple disasters, from wildfires, flooding, and the recent Coronavirus pandemic.…
Objective:
The webinar covers aspects of public health systems in the Making Cities Resilient Campaign tool – the Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities. The focus is on how the scorecard promotes a broad multi-sectoral approach to handling disaster risk reduction, including for public health emergencies.
Background:
“Preparation saves lives”. The…
The School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam is organizing the Disaster, Risk and Vulnerability Conference - 2020 (DRVC 2020). In the present COVID-19 scenario the conference will be conducted through Virtual Mode on focused themes during 9–10 October and 16–17 October 2020.
The conference is in continuation of th…
This IS a very unique hurricane season, as described in an informative blog post by my colleague Astrid Caldas.
Not only did we have named storms earlier in the season than ever before, but hurricane season arrived in the middle of a global pandemic, or as I like to call it – a syndemic. As we navigate the present climate crisis/COVID-19 syndemic and p…
By Beth Chitekwe-Biti, David Sheridan, Wonderufl Hunga, Patrick Njoroge, and Karen Wong-Pérez
This case study examines the deliberative and participatory processes used by Slum Dwellers International (SDI), focusing on two affiliated federations in Kenya and Malawi. It describes the ways in which participatory mechanisms have allowed SDI federatio…
Whether refugees living in overcrowded camps or jobless migrant workers forced to return home, the lives of millions of people in Asia-Pacific are threatened by the dangerous combination of displacement and the COVID-19 pandemic.
This brief, developed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, highlig…
As countries continue to meet the immediate needs of the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis is forcing policymakers to consider the unavoidable trade-offs between saving lives and preserving jobs and livelihoods. Throughout Asia-Pacific, governments are considering options for restarting their economic engines and putting people back to work, includ…
To support CBM’s Community-Based Inclusive Development (CBID) partners, a “Disability Inclusive Community Action – COVID-19 Matrix” has been developed with the aim to provide community programmes guidance on possible action points in community development and mobilization in relation to COVID-19 preparedness and response.
The matrix is not intended to…
Since the tragedy of the 2015 earthquakes, Nepal has undergone a political and structural transformation in how it approaches disaster risk governance. This has resulted in the decentralization of authority to the lowest levels of government in an effort to build resilience from the ground up.
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is most effective when…
Contexto y Introducción
Todas las comunidades están expuestas a emergencias y desastres relacionados con cualquier tipo de amenazas naturales, brotes epidémicos y aquellas producidas por el hombre, biológicas, químicas, radiológicas, tecnológicas, conflictos y otros. En un contexto de urbanización creciente y cambio climático, la frecuenci…
Suva –Local wisdom, ownership and leadership are critical factors for effective humanitarian action in support of communities exposed and vulnerable to climate and disaster risk. Preparedness and response planning need to be more collaborative and inclusive, the Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP) ’s webinar on ‘Local Humanitarian Action for a Res…
As I write this, the novel coronavirus has infected more than 1,400,000 people and killed 75,000 across the world. While many governments are seeking to contain the outbreak, too much discussion of COVID19 has ignored the importance of social ties. There is growing evidence that our bonding, bridging, and linking social ties impact our lives, resi…
This online event will bring speakers from social movements and networks working with indigenous people, people living in informal settlements and women working in the informal economy, to reflect on the response of their communities to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The event will examine inequalities in impacts and coping strategies and dis…