Capacity development

This document showcases how Concern Worldwide is working with Malawi’s Department of Housing to increase community awareness on flood-resilience infrastructure and training local artisanal builders to improve and construct stronger houses.

Led in part by SFU, COPE project aims to help older adults prepare for and respond to extreme heat. The project is part of SFU Climate Innovation , a critical research priority that supports a community-centred response to the impacts of climate change.

A leadership programme in Fiji found that combining climate resilience training with confidence-building and leadership development can strengthen women’s participation in climate action and support more inclusive, resilient communities.

Simulation games are not new in disaster risk and climate adaptation. Layer Up! builds on this tradition but addresses a gap: questions about the trade-offs between different risk financing instruments.

Climate in Common is a communications toolkit that will help groups connect with working class people. It gives campaigners, civil society organizations and policymakers ten practical tools for building working class engagement with climate policy.

Despite the challenges it faces and the limited resources at its disposal, the Government of the Union of the Comoros is working to protect hard-earned development gains and chart a course to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future.

On June 17, 2026, Lao PDR solidified its commitment to building disaster resilience, joining 33 countries worldwide to partner with the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) on a National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment (NDPBA).

What lesson should we draw from the surviving house in Pacific Palisades during the 2025 California wildfires?

Climate adaptation increasingly depends on specialized knowledge — from climate modelling and flood mapping to water management and data analysis — as well as local knowledge, developed over generations.

The Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) is advancing its Building Disaster Early Warning Capacity project in Cali, Colombia through recent completion of an in-person DisasterAWARE training and a dedicated Training of Trainers (ToT) program.

Traditional infrastructure-funding models rarely factor in resilience to geoclimatic events. Yet, the impact of extreme weather on existing and future global infrastructure could generate economic losses as high as 19% of GDP by 2050.

ARISE Philippines has commenced its 2026 Hands-Only CPR Campaign, reinforcing private sector engagement in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and contributing to national resilience-building efforts.

Ten engineers and architects from Bhutan spent six days in Christchurch, enhancing their expertise in damage assessment and retrofitting of critical urban infrastructure, drawing lessons from the city’s post-quake reconstruction lessons.

Security actors around the world are beginning to recognize the risks posed by information manipulation surrounding extreme weather, climate resilience, and the clean energy transition

This study highlights gaps in all-hazards disaster preparedness approaches and examines how disaster preparedness planning can systematically draw upon social vulnerability triage.

Fiji has completed training officials from roughly 30 ministries and agencies to use a new online system that, for the first time, will let the government track disaster risk reduction work across every sector from a single platform.

Armenia has taken a major step toward strengthening its national disaster preparedness and climate resilience. Government institutions, international organizations and development partners gathered for the EW4All National Roadmap Validation Workshop

Organising preparedness training for water utilities in relation to cholera is a critical step in preventing and reducing outbreaks. It is essential because cholera is waterborne.

Seychelles hosted a regional peer learning workshop from 18 to 20 January 2026 on building methodological foundations for national disaster tracking systems powered by DELTA-Resilience. Participants from Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar attended.

This document provides practical guidance for assessing and addressing climate-related risks such as heat, flooding, and extreme weather to ensure continuity of social care service.

Prepared International (PPI) participated in the first workshop of DARE (Deployment and Engagement of Resources and Citizens for European Emergency Response) in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Research from The Nature Conservancy, the University of California, Berkeley and the USDA Forest Service details how wildfires could be leveraged to increase forest resilience to future high-severity fires across the Western United States.

This exercise will take place from 3 to 24 March 2026, bringing together scientific institutions, national authorities and civil protection partners to strengthen early warning systems and emergency response capacities.

As climate impacts intensify across Bangladesh, adaptation efforts must address not only infrastructure and ecosystem-related risks but also the social structures that shape vulnerability and resilience.

The Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance, an IFRC partner organization, has posted an Urban Heat Library mini-site as a “collaborative space dedicated to sharing knowledge, tools, and best practices related to urban heat".

The Country Climate and Development Report provides analysis and recommendations on how Laos can achieve sustained development while responding to climate change.

This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) identify priority investments to strengthen resilience in flood risk management, resilient rural livelihoods, sustainable natural resource use, and sustainable energy access.

The descriptive analysis summarized in this United States case study addresses identifying and integrating spatially explicit data for AFN-related residential populations, earthquake hazards, and county and county equivalents for the conterminous.

UConn research gives insights into regional weather differences that complicate grid resilience.

Barbados-based company Steamatic ran on experience, commitment and ingenuity, but lacked a formal business continuity plan in the face of disasters - until joining the UNDRR–BCCI project to strengthen disaster resilience for SMEs.

This DTS training equipped local stakeholders with the knowledge and skills to effectively utilise the DTS Model, Delta Resilience, marking a critical step forward in strengthening Seychelles’ ability to understand, track, and respond to disasters.

The Office of the National Public Auditor in the Federated States of Micronesia concluded that the country’s planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of climate change adaptation actions require significant improvement.

New systems will help the integrated railway to make faster and more informed decisions to help keep trains moving safely and reliably.

In December 2025, a study tour organized by UNDRR enabled delegations from Ethiopia and South Sudan to learn from Mozambique’s experience in establishing and operationalizing the National Multi-Hazard Early Warning Situation Room at the INGD.