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Displaying 7 of about 7 resultsEver wondered which parts of Child-Centred Risk Reduction (CCRR) programs create the greatest impact on household safety? Listen in to this webinar to understand more about CCRR programs’ impact on household safety, a toolkit that captures the direct impact of learning initiatives on household safety, and the results from testing this toolkit in India,…
By Catharina Klingspor
Nestled between Gayle and Guy’s Hill, Jeffrey Town in north-eastern Jamaica is particularly exposed to natural disasters. At an elevation of 1,700 feet, the village is built on sloping terrain and has the highest total recorded number of landslides in the country.
This is where Jeffrey Town Farmers Association (JFTA)…
Kobe, 23 May, 2018 - Two schools with tragically different experiences of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami were at the centre of Ms. Mami Mizutori’s first visit to her native Japan since she took on the role of UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction in March.
Last Saturday, the head of UNISDR, Ms. Mizutori, was in the Toh…
This guidance presents Red Cross and Red Crescent staff, members and volunteers with a set of minimum standards for protection, gender and inclusion (PGI) in emergencies. It aims to ensure that the emergency programming of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and National Societies provides dignity, access, partici…
Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) has become an important policy design framework to help reduce disaster impacts in the education sector, and practitioners have a crucial role. This brief reviews how policies are developed and the roles practitioners can have in developing and implementing policies. It then discusses how the CSS Framework was developed…
CARTAGENA, 19 June 2018 – Tichico Joel Cobian Mena was a geologist for 26 years in Santiago de Cuba when he became blind in 2005 after a long and painful ocular disease. He is now retired but he has put both his knowledge and handicap at the service of the 10,000 disabled people who have been identified among the most vulnerable groups if his region was…
Hosted by the Government of Colombia in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the Regional Platform will represent an opportunity for governments, the private sector, civil society and other actors in the Americas to exchange experiences regarding the implementation of the Regional Action Plan, agreed in March…