A five year study that Australian Red Cross has been partnering in, with the University of Melbourne, has been finalised. The study examined the long term effects of health effects of the impacts of the bushfires,a nd had over 1000 participants Five years after the event, 21% of respondents were suffering from post traumatic stress. The […]
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This guide was developed by members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee and Experts Group on Resilience as a simple “how to” guide to allow people in the field to analyse what is needed to boost the resilience of specific groups, specific systems, and specific programmes, to the risks people face every day. The guidance is aimed
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The Rockefeller Foundation has been working with HR&A Associates to develop a workshop-based Resilience Academy that they have offered to local governments in the United States. The Academy brings together mulit-disciplinary teams of stakeholders from a local city to participate in a series of workshops to better understand resilience concepts, analyze resilience needs in their
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The WDR 2016 focuses on Resilience: Saving lives today, investing for tomorrow
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This report on “Risk Reduction and Resilience in Asia: Unpacking the post 2015 Agenda” reflects the views, commitments and interests shown by individual practitioners’ who attended the 8th Practitioner Workshop in Bangkok during 23-25 November 2015 . This is the continuation of practice of knowledge exchange among disaster risk reduction practitioners in a range
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This report summarises the findings of a workshop on Smart Villages and Resilience to Natural Disasters. Co-hosted by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and the Smart Villages Initiative, the workshop brought together two communities of researchers and practitioners focusing on energy access and natural disasters to promote active discussion around key issues
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As national Governments struggle to address the scale of disasters and the increased preparedness needs at all levels, there has been a push for more proactive measures to be taken by local government. Over the last decade, the main disaster risk reduction actors as well as other organizations involved with local governments and community groups
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UNISDR’s mandate: UNISDR was established in 1999 as a dedicated secretariat to facilitate the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN agency for ISDR). UNISDR’s mandate has been defined by a number of United Nations General Assembly Resolutions, the most notable of which is “to serve as the focal point in the United
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World Bank’s mandate: The World Bank Group has two ambitious goals: end extreme poverty within a generation and boost shared prosperity. It offers support to developing countries through policy advice, research and analysis, and technical assistance. It supports capacity development and sponsors, hosts, or participates in many conferences and forums on issues of development, often
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Desde hace dos décadas el sector humanitario ha llegado a un consenso que el responder a desastres después de que pasen no salva el mayor número de vidas o medios de vida, y tampoco disminuye las perdidas económicas asociadas con desastres. Este reconocimiento esta combinado con un cambio endógeno hacia el liderazgo comunitario en el
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