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Displaying 45 of about 92 resultsThe disaster risk reduction (DRR) status report provides a snapshot of the state of DRR in India under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence among the key global frameworks at the national level; and makes recommendations for streng…
This paper examines humanitarian assistance practices to understand how approaches followed by various actors address – or fail to address - social vulnerability to disasters. This question is addressed through a study of humanitarian responses in two disaster-affected villages of Baltistan in northern Pakistan. The study identifies how government, non-…
The disaster risk reduction (DRR) status report provides a snapshot of the state of DRR in Australia under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence among the key global frameworks at the national level; and makes recommendations for s…
The role of Uganda Red Cross Society will be enshrined in law, an important step for an organisation helping people in need in Uganda since 1939.
The Ugandan Parliament passed the Uganda Red Cross Society Bill, on the 11th of March 2021, to legally formalize the auxiliary role of Uganda Red Cross with the Government of Uganda and other public authoriti…
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These predominately Black and brown communities, in fact, are five times more likely than the general population to live within half a mile of a toxic site that could flood by 2050, according to a new statewide mapping project led by environmental health professors at UC Berkeley and UCLA. All told, the ocean could inundate more than 40…
This journal aims to reflect on the impact of solidarity in times of crisis and on how public auditors in the European Union (EU) are contributing to alleviating future crises. When people are facing a clear and present danger, political differences and animosities fade away and are replaced by an urge to help and offer solidarity. This journal is…
Journalists from across the Americas region were urged to spread the word that natural hazards such as earthquakes and tornadoes may be impossible to stop but that there is nothing inevitable about the loss of life and economic damage they inflict.
“Disasters are not natural,” Kevin Blanchard, of the ‘no #NoNaturalDisasters’ international campaign, tol…
Start Network has signed a climate risk insurance policy that will protect up to 160,000 people in Senegal from the effects of drought. One of the first of its kind, the policy will enable aid agencies to offer life-saving support to people in Senegal as soon as a drought is predicted, helping to prevent famine.
The $1.5 million USD policy, signed by S…
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In commemorating the IDDRR 2021, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC), Sri Lanka as the focal point for disaster risk management in the country is hosting a national commemoration programme on 13th October 2021 at the BMICH, Colombo, Sri Lanka from 13.00 to 16.30 hours {(IST) UTC +5:30} as a hybrid (i.e. virtual and with physical presence…
MCR2030-AMC announces a short video contest 'Voices of the Community in the Americas and the Caribbean - Getting Ready for a Resilient Future', where local voices can tell a story, share ideas, practices, and experiences of their community in the theme of disaster risk reduction and resilience. Winner videos will be featured and credited across the Amer…
This report synthesises the main messages from the Resilience Hub and aims to help set the direction for future action towards COP27 and beyond. The report first provides an overview of the key adaptation and resilience decisions and announcements that took place during COP26; it then presents the key messages resulting from the events of the Resilience…
Josephine Castillo ‘Jhocas’ helped start DAMPA after the demolition of a division of settlements of urban poor in Manila in the 1980’s. What started as a network of 17 groups now has 67 grassroots women organizations nationwide. The network connects and empowers grassroots women leaders and shares best practices to engage in coordinated policy reform an…
The civil society sector is experiencing pressure and strain unlike it has experienced before, under the COVID-19 pandemic. To explore how the sector has responded, engaged and acted this past year, the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute and Accountable Now have published a special accountability issue of AIDMI’s Southasiadisasters.net journal. Thi…
Climate finance is delivered by a broad and expanding range of specialised climate funds, with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) being the largest of them. The main objective of this study is to showcase ways in which civil society organisations (CSOs) could access GCF climate finance. It analyses barriers and entry points for CSOs by combining policy analys…
The disaster risk reduction (DRR) status report provides a snapshot of the state of DRR in Singapore under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence among the key global frameworks at the national level; and makes recommendations for st…