World Disaster Report 2016
The WDR 2016 focuses on Resilience: Saving lives today, investing for tomorrow
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CAP Workshop 2016 Report
Held in Bangkok on August 23–24, 2016, this workshop brought together 81 participants from 17 countries to share technical experiences with CAP-enabled alerting systems. Co-hosted by the Asian Institute of Technology and Sahana Software Foundation, and supported by partners including IFRC, WMO, ITU, and UNESCAP, the event featured presentations from government agencies, humanitarian actors, and
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Children, young people and flooding: Recovery and resilience
Children, young people and flooding: Recovery and resilience Research with flood-affected children reveals serious impacts on well-being but also a desire to take on a role in flood risk management. Lancaster University researchers found that factors impacting on children’s well-being include: loss of valued personal and family possessions, friendship networks, familiar spaces, education; experience of
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Practitioners Perspective on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Building in Asia
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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Comparative Review of The Pillowcase Project
This report presents key insights and findings from a Comparative Review of The Pillowcase Project. The study was led by Sustainability Frontiers and funded by the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC). Beginning in January 2016, the research team aimed to review and compare the various approaches of implementing The Pillowcase Project across the six participating
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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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Finding Economic Opportunity in the City
This report looks at International Rescue Committe’s (IRC) experiences in cash assistance and livelihoods programming in Lebanon and Jordan in the context of the Syrian regional response. It explores opportunities and challenges inherent to cash and livelihoods programming, identifying good practices and ways to integrate other relevant sectors in order to produce better outcomes for
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Humanitarian Action in Urban Context
A humanitarian response in an urban context must not only meet the immediate needs of affected populations, but also foster recovery and sustainable development in the aftermath of a crisis so that people and the city are safe, healthy, educated, economically empowered and able to cope with future shocks and stresses. This should include new
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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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Smart Villages and Resilience to Natural Disasters
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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