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Disaster Resilience Education & Research: Roadmap for Europe 2030

In recent years, the European higher education community has played an increasingly important role in moving disaster science from a responsive, primarily technical discipline, to a broad, multi-disciplinary movement that seeks to build societal resilience to disaster. This movement coincides with the increasing global emphasis on the need to tackle the inter-related challenges of disaster […]

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The Story of Ebola

This animation—produced by Global Health Media Project in collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, UNICEF, and Yoni Goodman—brings to life key messages that help people see and understand how Ebola spreads and how to protect themselves and their communities. Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZI-FayZkvg  Download link: http://globalhealthmedia.org/videos/   Video Link

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La Ruta del Reto

“La Ruta del Reto” es un juego cuyo objetivo es generar actitudes adecuadas para enfrentar los riesgos de desastres aumentados por el cambio climático, la degradación ambiental y otras amenazas que reducen el bienestar de las comunidades. Busca generar respuestas asertivas, a partir de los conocimientos adquiridos previamente por los participantes, frente a los diversos

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Case study 11 – Collaboration with universities to strengthen local resilience in Nicaragua

For the implementation of the Program for Disaster Risk Management in the Face of Climate Change in Nicaragua, Partners for Resilience (PfR) worked with the academic sector in the department of Madriz and in the Northern Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (RACCN). The involvement of universities was a key factor in being able to offer diploma

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Case study 8 – Awareness-raising and education campaigns to strengthen resilience in four municipalities of the department of Madriz and the Northern Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region in Nicaragua

In Nicaragua, Partners for Resilience (PfR) worked to reduce the risk of disaster in four municipalities of the department of Madriz that are in what is known as the Central American “Dry Corridor.” It also promoted the development and implementation of a regional climate change strategy in the Northern Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. As the

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Pillowcase Project International Pilot Peru:Video Case Study

The American Red Cross and the GDPC, with sponsorship from Disney, are working to prepare school-age children at home and abroad for the next disaster through “The Pillowcase Project”. Building on nine years of successful “Pillowcase Project” implementation in cities across the United States, the GDPC has developed a model curriculum allowing Red Cross and

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