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Case study: A catalyst for strengthening local governance in Nepal

14 Mar 2025
The Municipal Disaster Risk Governance Assessment (MDRGA) Tool empowers municipal authorities to review the current status of disaster risk reduction and management governance, identify and take action on needs and priorities. The tool is a resource ...
Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Disaster Law

Infographic: Nepal’s Municipal Disaster Risk Governance Assessment (MDRGA) tool

13 Mar 2025
The Municipal Disaster Risk Governance Assessment (MDRGA) Tool empowers municipal authorities to review the current status of disaster risk reduction and management governance, identify and take action on needs and priorities. The tool is a resource ...
Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Disaster Law
Research

The hidden power of community: Unveiling social capital’s role in Australia’s disaster resilience

06 Mar 2025
Social capital – the social ties and connections between people and communities – is a crucial component of disaster resilience. But evidence that demonstrates the economic benefit of investing in social capital has been anecdotal and primari...
Research, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Other type of resource

Consultancy Opportunity: Synthesis Report on Inclusive Early Warning Early Action for the “Last Mile”

05 Mar 2025
The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is seeking a research consultant to develop a report on inclusive early warning and early action (EWEA) for last-mile communities. The report will synthesis findings from the studies funded under the GDP...
Other type of resource
Research

Understanding Barriers to Early Warning Messages for People Living with Non-Communicable Diseases in Nepal

04 Mar 2025
About this Paper This study explores the challenges that people living with non-communicable diseases (PLWNCDs) face in accessing early warning messages (EWMs) during disasters in Nepal, focusing on flood-prone districts of Kanchanpur and Kailali. Fi...
Research, Community Engagement and Accountability, Early Warning Systems, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Case Study

Pre-Financing Anticipatory Action: Lessons Learned from the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society

28 Feb 2025
Since 2015, the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) has been at the forefront of anticipatory action, developing trigger models and testing early action activities for cyclones, floods, and heatwaves. By 2024, BDRCS had validated three Early Acti...
Case Study, Anticipatory action, Disaster Risk Financing
Guidance material, Report

Pre-Financing Anticipatory Action: A Practical Guide for National Societies

28 Feb 2025
Anticipatory action is expanding and being mainstreamed across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. As National Societies add more Early Action Protocols (EAPs) and scale up their anticipatory action programming, developing an anticipatory action pre...
Guidance material, Report, Anticipatory action, Disaster Risk Financing

Double Jeopardy: Addressing compound flood and heatwave events

20 Feb 2025
Compound events, such as floods and heatwaves occurring in close succession or simultaneously, can interact in a way that creates more severe outcomes than if they occurred both individually, as multiple stressors can exceed the coping capacity of a ...
Flood, Heat Wave, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Research

Understanding evacuation behavior during cyclones: Evidence from Bangladesh

10 Feb 2025
This paper examines evacuation behaviors in response to approaching cyclones using survey data collected through face-to-face interviews with residents in coastal areas of Bangladesh. Various statistical models, including probit, panel probit, bivari...
Research, Anticipatory action, Early Warning Systems, Shelter
Assessment or evaluation, Research

Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: Achievements, Gaps, and Future Directions

10 Feb 2025
This article charts the policy evolution of warnings within the United Nations context and outlines the progress and remaining gaps of Early Warning Systems (EWS) in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR). Ten years into implementin...
Assessment or evaluation, Research, Early Warning Systems
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