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Displaying 105 of about 199 resultsThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) joined today at COP26 with the Government of the United Kingdom and the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) to launch the Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP), which aims to strengthen climate resilience for local communities, including for women and girls, by scaling up climate adaptation measures in Asia and the P…
The Brazilian municipality of Riversul has become the 300th member of a global partnership of local governments committed to strengthening their disaster resilience in an ever-riskier world. The district authority in the State of São Paulo joined Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) as part of its ambition to protect lives, livelihoods, and developmen…
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…
The science is clear, and the solution is simple — massive and unabated GHG emissions since the industrial age are causing global warming and making extreme events more frequent and more extreme. The answer is simple, reduce GHG emissions to stop climate change.
Although the situation seems clear on the surface, the path to decarbonising is compl…
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There is concern Australia is well behind in its efforts to adapt to the effects of more intense and frequent weather events, according to Sarah Boulter, associate professor in Climate Adaptation at the University of Tasmania.
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One of the key ways to counter the effects of climate change and make our cities more liveable as temperatures ri…
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Tunisian farmers are turning to the past to ensure a future by planting indigenous seeds as the North African country suffers at a time of drought, disease and climate change. Traditional seeds come from a genetic heritage best suited to the environment, said Maher Medini, from Tunisia's National Gene Bank, which promotes the development of susta…
This research discusses Community based disaster management (CBDM) empowers communities to be actively engaged and be pro-active in disaster management. The involvement of the community is one of the keys to success in disaster management, especially considering the values embraced by the community itself such as religious values and local wisdom. This…
This report captures key activities, outcomes, and impact of work conducted across the three research packages with the aim of developing evidence-based strategies that motivate appropriate protective action and support informed decision-making during natural hazards:
Encouraging protective action and enhancing trust with multi-agency risk and warnin…
The paper will identify the key features and characteristics of Community Disaster Resilience (CDR) frameworks from the literature to develop a resilience framework that can be adapted and customised according to stakeholder needs. Decision makers, practitioners and community members need to assess the disaster resilience of their communities and t…
This short course provides an overview of the approach and toolset developed by the Open Data for Resilience Initiative. Major topics covered include the rationale and practices of the open data movement, tools for sharing geospatial data, community mapping and citizen science for disaster and climate risk management, and new approaches for communi…
Objetivo General
Comprender los conceptos sobre la elaboración de proyectos comunitarios.
Objetivos Específicos
Identificar Conceptos básicos sobre proyectos comunitarios orientados a la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres Conocer aspectos relacionados con el financiamiento.
Contenidos
Conceptos Básicos sobre organización de la sociedad civil Elaboraci…
Gobeshona as always provides an opportunity to bring together a distinguished and multidisciplinary group of scholars, policy-makers, researchers and practitioners from around the world to share their knowledge, research, and practical experiences on climate change issues with a broad range of themes, focusing on Locally – Led Adaptation Action (LLA) ac…
Community members are usually the first to know when a suspicious or unusual health event has occurred in their community – so enabling, empowering, and equipping communities to recognize and respond to public health threats in their midst not only makes sense but also forms an essential foundation for the concept of community-based surveillance (CBS).…
Ce document fait office de guide pour contribuer à la réponse internationale et multipartite en santé publique à l’épidémie de la MVE qui sévit en Guinée et dans les pays avoisinants de la Côte d’Ivoire, de la Guinée-Bissau,du Libéria, du Mali, du Sénégal et de la Sierra Leone. Il a également pour objet de favoriser une réponse basée sur des données pro…
This article reports on the development and validation of a cumulative measure of exposure to natural hazard-related disasters (2013–2017) at the area level, and an individuallevel measure of disaster impact using data from the Longitudinal Cohort Study on the Filipino Child and linked data from the International Disaster Database (EM-DAT). Exposur…