Resilient Child, Mali
Application of a resilience analytical framework to child resilience in Mail.
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L’Enfant Resilient: Mali
Application dans un cadre analytique resilience de l’enfant au Mali.
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UNISDR Annual Report 2016
The year 2016 was transformative for UNISDR – internally, UNISDR aligned its work in support of the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 with the organisational vision of its new senior management team. This resulted in the implementation of a new Strategic Framework 2016-2021, Work Programme 2016-2019 and a change management
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The Right to the City for Urban Displaced Residents of Dar es Salaam (IRC)
This report published by IRC provides a review of the Barriers to Safe and Equal Access to the City for the Displaced Residents of Dar es Salaam. Urbanisation is changing the nature of humanitarian response. In the 21st century, the phenomenon is most prevalent in developing countries; it is estimated that cities in developing countries
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World risk report 2016: The importance of infrastructure
The World Risk Report 2016 analyses the role that infrastructure plays in shaping a country’s disaster risk. The World Risk Index, calculated by the University of Stuttgart, is an integral part of the report as it ranks 171 countries according to their risk of becoming a victim of a disaster as a result of natural hazards
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Resilience scan July-September 2016: A review of literature, debates and social media activity on resilience
. This ‘resilience scan’ summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the third quarter of 2016, focussing primarily on the context of developing countries as well as gender equality and resilience. The scan will be of particular interest to those implementing resilience projects and policies and those seeking summaries of current debates
Fire Sensors for Safer Urban Communities
The Red Cross collaborated with private sector and civil society partners in Kenya and South Africa to introduce simple, yet sophisticated sensors to provide early detection and warning of home fires across two informal settlements. In eight months, the coalition designed, manufactured, and installed 2,000 sensors at the household level across two settlements in Mukuru, Nairobi
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Concern Disaster Risk Reduction – Urban Contexts
This publication is a synthesis of lessons from more than a decade of Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming in urban geographic contexts. Based on research in Port au Prince, Haiti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nairobi, Kenya; and Freetown, Sierra Leone, this publication describes Concern’s approach to DRR and offers lessons and guidance on how to
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Gender Approaches in Climate Compatible Development: Lessons from Kenya
This report examines gender and climate change in relation to efforts to support climate compatible development, a policy goal that aims to integrate and draw synergies between adaptation, mitigation and development. The report’s focus is a case study of Kisumu, Kenya, drawing lessons from the five-year project People’s Plans into Practice (PPP): Building Productive and
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Overview of Forced Migration of South Sudanese into West Nile Region, Northern Uganda
For over 2 decades, Uganda has been a host country for refugees from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo where the majorities are currently settling in the refugee camps of West Nile region and Western Uganda due to the escalating rebellion, civil war and armed conflict in their home country. As a result
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