28 Mar 2023
Community Brigades are organized groups of people dedicated to building resilience and strengthening local capacities in the face of flooding, as well as other emergencies and disasters. Establishing the identity of a brigade is key to formalizing th...
Tags: Other type of resource, Community Engagement and Accountability, Flood, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
07 Mar 2015
Since 2011, Partners for Resilience (PfR) in Nicaragua has been promoting a safe schools model in the municipalities of Somoto, San Lucas, Las Sabanas and San José de Cusmapa in the department of Madriz. The objective was to help the Ministry of Edu...
Tags: Case Study, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management
15 Dec 2014
Denny Morrison challenges three commonly held but irrational beliefs about behavioral health care: first, that having a mental illness or addiction is a stigma. (“To compare ‘having a bad day’ to major depression,” he says, ...
Tags: Video, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support