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Urban Child-centred HVC assessment and planning tools
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfill their potential. We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs i…
Due to a high rate of traffic facilities, South Korea intervened with mandatory traffic education in schools and extracurricular traffic education facilities in order to reduce child traffic fatalities and engage students in traffic and transportation education.
This case study is part of a series of case studies documenting how countries have been dev…
PARIS, 27 June 2017 – Early warning technology is vital to save lives if a tsunami strikes, but public awareness of how to react is the critical factor, according to experts at an international meeting.
“Exposed communities need tsunami literacy,” Mr. Andi Eka Sakya of Indonesia’s BMKG Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency told the asse…
ISTANBUL, Turkey, 6 April 2017 – The lamp in the classroom begins to sway. The desks start to shake. If you’ve never faced an earthquake, Turkey’s AFAD national disaster management authority can give you a taste.
“This is based on real experiences,” said Mr. Zekeriya Ozturk, information officer for AFAD’s simulator truck, at the European Forum for Disa…
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Sphere India is a national coalition of humanitarian agencies working in India. Sphere India works to provide opportunities to different stakeholders to come together, build common understanding, and develop collaborative plans of action, tools for collaborative action and monitoring opportunities for consolidating collaborative learning at va…
To help develop Child-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction (CCDRR) in urban areas, this report provides new elements for practitioners to better use Hazards, Vulnerabilities, and Capacities Assessment (HVCA) tools. In youth groups and in urban contexts, a wide range of HVCA methods and toolkits are already being used. Despite examples of good practice, more…
Education is a right of children and all human beings. Ensuring education for all children and youth is crucial for addressing sustainability goals and for adopting effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies. Urban floods have widespread impacts on the education sector, including school buildings and infrastructure, institutional and organisatio…
"In Bangladesh, climate change is in your face. You can't avoid it. You can see it happening"
By Laurie Goering
London - Climate change-driven extreme weather - from flooding and mudslides to blistering heat - is accelerating migration to Bangladesh's cities, raising the risks of problems such as child marriage, according to UNICEF's head of Banglades…
By Arnoud Molenaar
Rotterdam is no stranger to water. 80% of our city sits below sea level and we face the effects of climate change on a daily basis. As subsidence and urbanization increase, our risk of flooding continues to grow.
As one of the first cities in the world to release a comprehensive Resilience Strategy, Rotterdam is keenly aware of how…
As poor rains cut harvests, driving up food prices in cities, Addis Ababa authorities join charities in feeding hungry children
By Dagim Terefe
Endale Terefe remembers a time when he used to go to school so hungry he had trouble staying awake during lessons.
The 14-year-old student in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, was living with his aunt after hi…
The Child-Centred Urban Resilience Framework (CCURF) was developed to assist the work of child-centred organisations to build resilience in cities in support of children. The CCURF is guided by urban systems thinking and aligns child and human rights and gender-sensitive approaches with urban development and promotes children as agents of resilience. Th…
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 139, December 2015:
This issue highlights the need for making children's rights to protection against urban risks indispensable in building 'Smart Cities' that are sustainable and resilient. As Indian cities are constantly embattled against disasters and emergencies, its children often find themselves to be the victims…
Date: February 24, 2021
Time: 11:00 am (EST)
Plataform: Zoom. Registration link: https://undrr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsduGppzsjE9BmlsQJiD1PGX9xTvp69UmE
Event available in English and Spanish
In the Americas and the Caribbean, sustainable development is linked to the development of their cities. In an urban region, cities are the scena…
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Critical Factors for Post-Disaster Educational Continuity in Urban Flood Impacts in South and Southeast Asia
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential. We w…
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Education Safe from Disasters Research: Urban Child-centred HVC Assessment and Planning Tools
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential. We work together, with…