Thumbnail-DRR terminology translation
Documents and publications
This document contains the translations of the disaster risk reduction terminology in Kono, Krio, Limba, Mende, and Themne. These are the top five local languages in Sierra Leone.
Thumbnail-School disaster risk reduction teaching guidelines
Educational materials
The SDRRTG manual is designed to guide school heads, teachers, learners and by extension communities to ensure school safety, particularly in facilitating the protection of children against disasters.
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What happens when nine young people from around the world gather in Sri Lanka to discuss how to protect vulnerable communities from destructive floods? A “Flood Green Guide Youth Champions Program” is born.
World Wildlife Fund Environment and Disaster Management
Schoolchildren conducting earthquake drill
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ShakeOut is Aotearoa New Zealand's national earthquake and tsunami drill, organised by Emergency Management New Zealand and promoted by Western Bay of Plenty District Council throughout the District.
Western Bay of Plenty district council
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For nearly nine years, Doers has been engaged in disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and humanitarian response actions. With a systems approach, Doers' interventions revolve around the themes of Resilience, Sustainability, and Empowerment.
Doers
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Documents and publications
To achieve the goal of the Sendai Framework of reducing global disaster risks and losses, the theme of the IDDRR 2024, which falls on 13 October, will be on the role of education in protecting and empowering youth for a disaster-free future.
Wonyong Park Lorenzo Miani Olivia Levrini
Schools are an important space young people to learn about disaster risk, but too often teachers miss educational opportunities. Educators need to better understand how to use specific climate disaster examples in the classroom to teach about risk.
Cogs lifted in the air by hands
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As the Ministry of Environment, Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition (MINEDDTE) prepares its first national adaptation plan (NAP) document, it launched a digital campaign calling on youth to get involved in adaptation.
National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network
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Students around the world can explore a new virtual world to learn heat wave survival skills and cooling solutions through the Minecraft Education platform.
Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
Flood mural Rajapur, Nepal
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The activity was carried out first in the classroom where children were allowed to express their experience living with flood through drawings and artistic expression.
Global Resilience Partnership

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