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Displaying 15 of about 85 resultsThis case study explores how Iran mandated annual school eartquake drills and raised public awareness within and beyond schools in order to reduce injury and death during earthquakes. This case study is part of a series of case studies documenting how countries have been developing and implementing Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) policies that address…
This Children in a Changing Climate coalition report argues that children should be a focus of efforts to address climate change and play an active part in the decisions that shape their present and future.
In developing countries, climate change is projected to exacerbate the top 5 causes of death for children under 5. Children are the least res…
This case study makes the case for the effectiveness of early warning and the role of young people in flood preparedness in Jakarta, Indonesia. The document concludes that young people play a very important role in mobilizing peers so that their involvement could usefully increase the resilience towards floods.
The authors propose the following recomme…
This plan outlines the concept of the Lake Chad as a rural hub for regional development in parallel to the restoration of peace and security. It intends to contribute significantly to food security, employment, and the social inclusion of the youth by improving, in a sustainable way, the living conditions of populations settled on the Lake’s banks and i…
On the occasion of International Day for Disaster Reduction, tsunami evacuation drills in Samoa mobilised 1,400 students and teachers to test their school disaster preparedness and evacuation plans.
Conducted simultaneously in six schools that were affected by the tsunami in 2009, the drills were the first ever on such a scale to test school disaster r…
[...]State legislators this year introduced half a dozen bills focused on extreme heat in schools, and a few are still in play as the legislative session draws to a close. They are relatively modest measures, but they’re a start.One bill, AB 384, would require the state Department of Education to come up with recommendations for maximum indoor air tempe…
You are cordially invited to participate in the Webinar on 15th Anniversary of Kashmir Earthquake-2005 Challenges, Resilience & Mitigation, jointly organized by the National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India and The Institution of Engineers (India), J&K State Centre, in collaboration with Divisional…
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The federal government traditionally funds programs pre-disaster to mitigate the effects of hazards and post-disaster to assist communities to recover and rebuild. While funding vehicles may operate under different names and emphasize resilience more today than a decade ago, little attention is paid beyond physical infrastructure improvements or…
More than half a billion children live in areas with extremely high flood occurrence and 160 million in high drought severity zones, leaving them highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, Unicef said in a report released ahead of the 21st United Nations climate change conference, known as COP21.
Of the 530 million children in the flood-prone zon…
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) via its Asia-Pacific Regional Office is congratulating participants at the just-concluded Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction for issuing the Delhi Declaration that reiterates a regional blueprint going forward, as well as the expanded Asia Regional Plan for Implementation of the Sendai Fram…
By Annette Gough, researcher in the Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, and the School of Education at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; and Briony Towers, Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Research, School of Global and Urban Studies at RMIT University in Australia
Australia’s policymak…
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…
ULAANBAATAR, 4 August 2017 – UNISDR’s newest Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction has called upon youth leaders from around the world to make a bigger contribution to global efforts towards sustainable and resilient development.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Mongolia, H.E. U. Khurelsukh told more than 4,000 youngsters from 51 countries at the Asia and t…
This document was prepared by the DKKV Young Professionals, the junior experts in the field of disaster risk reduction and management of the German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV). The following is a compilation of the results of discussions of the DKKV Young Professionals about the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduct…
The Model Safe School Programme (MSSP) is designed to assist Participating States with implementing processes that result in safer and greener educational facilities. Its Toolkit comprises a policy that can be adopted by governments and Ministries of Education, tools for assessing the level of safety and greenness of schools, a template Emergency/Disast…