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Displaying 60 of about 86 resultsReminding the world that the sooner action is taken to tackle climate change, the greater the benefits for all, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that for the nearly nine years, he has been at the head of the Organization, he has travelled the world to the front-lines of climate change, and spoken repeatedly with world leaders, bus…
By Cosmin Corendea
In a recent research project supported by the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and AXA Research Fund, I focused on the main two systems of law in the Pacific – state or national legislation and traditional, customary law – and how the differences between the two coul…
By Tonderayi Mukeredzi
With increasingly extreme weather taking a toll on farming and incomes, Zimbabwe has released a trio of climate change policies designed to make the country more resistant to climate pressures and help it meet its international carbon-cutting pledges.
The Child Friendly Climate Policy is designed to educate school children…
This essay illuminates four reoccurring obstructions to transitioning the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) into grassroots praxis and offers empirical case studies to highlight these: community ownership of risk, youth involvement, bipartisan support for implementation, and holistic development funding.
The author proposes the following to ov…
This briefing details lessons learned in implementing a regional multi-hazard emergency preparedness, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) project in the Deep South of Thailand and in Mindanao in the Philippines from May 2020 to June 2022. The project focused on piloting approaches that aim to ensure the most ma…
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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 Emer…
The UN Major Group for Children and Youth in collaboration with the African Good Governance Network is celebrating the International Day for Disaster Reduction, with the theme "Substantially reducing the number of people affected by disaster: Good governance and the role of youth".
The purpose of this event will be to deliberate on how good governance…
More than 2,000 young leaders and youth-led organisations from across the Commonwealth are urging governments to respect the needs and contributions of the world’s most vulnerable groups, in the lead up to global climate talks in Glasgow in November.
The Commonwealth Youth Statement on Climate Change, released today, appeals to governments t…
Failure to include women in decision-making, lack of information on early warning signs on climate change and weak national meteorological centres have hampered communities’ capacity for coping and adapting to climate change impacts.
Speakers on the ninth day of the UN climate change conference COP21 at the African Pavilion in Paris, France, called for…
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Kazakhstan has united efforts of partners in ensuring school safety. As part of the programme “Support for institutions and vulnerable communities in disaster risk reduction in the Republic of Kazakhstan” a total of 38 pilot schools in Kyzylorda, Mangistau and East Kazakhstan Regions as well as in Almaty and Astana wer…
This report describes the challenges that many of Australia’s children and young people face as a result of where they live. This report calls for more support for children and young people in Australia before, during and after disasters, and an urgent review of government policies. For children and young people, the consequence of trauma from…
By Arno Boersma, Founding Partner, Island Impact
When I visited St. Maarten in 2017, not long after hurricane Irma had devasted the small island state, I was struck by three things: One, nothing compares to seeing that degree of devastation in-person on-the-ground; Two, the positive spirit of the people to rebuild and get on with their lives; and…
An advocacy series, "Education Disrupted - Education Denied" brings to life how disasters impact education, and advocate to keep education safe from disasters for every child. In this issue, discover how displacement caused by armed conflict in Marawi is affecting children's lives and preventing access to a quality, basic education.
Policies and measures to address disaster risk should strengthen the resilience of children, their communities, state institutions, and the broader environmental, economic, and social structures, to a range of shocks, including conflict and the effects of climate change.
The Report examines the mutually supportive roles of the new agenda and current youth development efforts. The report provides insight into the role of young people in sustainable development in the context of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and related frameworks, in particular, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Thi…