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Training

[UNDRR GETI, UNITAR & WHO E-learning Course] Resilience of Local Governments: A multi-sectoral approach to integrate public health and disaster risk management

Updates

Education, collaboration, and innovation: how increasing awareness of climate change can support the expansion of community-led drr projects

With support from YAKKUM Emergency Unit’s (YEU) IDEAKSI project, PB Palma has developed an innovative DRR system, aimed to support KPGW’s emergency response in the event of a flood.
YAKKUM Emergency Unit member of ACT Alliance
Young woman wearing a traditional scarf on her head attends a public event in Northern Mozambique
Community announcement

Funding call: Grassroots Action Research Micro-grants

The ARA has launched the Grassroots Action Research Micro-grants, a new funding opportunity for action and research entities to collaborate to unearth knowledge, ideas and opportunities for climate change adaptation in the Global South.
Adaptation Research Alliance
Updates

The Averted Disaster Award announces Bangladesh Red Crescent Society as 2022 winner

The Averted Disaster Award (ADA) today named the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) as the winner of the 2022 ADA award for outstanding Disaster Risk Management (DRM) intervention.
Averted Disaster Award
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Documents and publications
2022

The engagement of informal volunteers in disaster management in Europe

This article examines the policies and institutional arrangements for integrating informal volunteers, the methods and tools for their engagement, and the reported benefits and challenges of involving volunteers in disaster management.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Anticipatory action and disaster risk finance: Guiding the setting of humanitarian targets
Documents and publications
2022

Anticipatory action and disaster risk finance: Guiding the setting of humanitarian targets

This report contributes to the evidence base for scaling up anticipatory action and pre-arranged disaster risk finance. It builds on our previous research conducted in 2019 that estimated that over half of crises are somewhat predictable
Start Network Overseas Development Institute
A How-To Guide for the SEM
Documents and publications
2022

UNFCCC COP: A how-to guide for the SEM

This guide seeks to provide the SEM community with further knowledge and information about the Paris Agreement, as well as tips for meaningfully engaging in the intergovernmental process, in order to have an impact in the climate process.
Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism
Meetings and conferences

All-of-society approach to multi-hazard early warning systems

Wildfire and dark clouds approaching Hollywood City
Updates

How can practitioners leverage their networks to maximize wildfire risk reduction?

Communities of fire adaptation and mitigation practitioners are attempting to improve fire outcomes by using their power as a system of connected entities – as networks – to influence each other, those who they serve, and the systems they work in.
Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network
Philippines Lessons Learned from Typhoon Yolanda
Documents and publications
2017

Philippines: Lessons Learned from Typhoon Yolanda An Assessment of the Post-Yolanda Short and Medium-Term Recovery and Rehabilitation Interventions of the Government

This document is an assessment of specific aspects of the Philippines' short and medium-term recovery from the Typhoon Yolanda.
World Bank, the