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How GADRRRES Strengthens Global Resilience in the Education Sector Through the Comprehensive School Safety Framework

Avatar photo Rita Ewing 17 Mar 2025
Background Every child has the right to an education and should be allowed to learn in a safe environment. Worldwide, disasters, emergencies, shocks a...

Double Jeopardy: Addressing compound flood and heatwave events

Avatar photo Cale Johnstone 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...

Preparedness for winter weather and response by National Societies in Europe and Central Asia

Global Disaster Preparedness Center 13 Jan 2025
This briefing note outlines common winter weather hazards experienced across Europe and Central Asia, and the ways in which National Societies are pre...

Dominica Building Resilience Through Community Early Warning Systems

Sarita Maurya 04 Sep 2024
Setting the Scene ​​​​​Dominica is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, the impacts of which have already been experienced wh...

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Make Way for Ducklings…with help from an OWL
Lawrence Olsen 05 Mar 2019
Image credits: IBM Call for Code, 2018. An OWL has brought together a cluster of ducklings and their mother to quickly form ad hoc communications ne...
Bangladesh: Off-line radio keeps people from Rakhine in the know
Avatar photo Miguel Aguirre 13 Feb 2019
Originally posted on 20 Dec 2018 by Farjana Sultana, IFRC. View Nurul Islam, 10, helps his older brother in the small family shop they run next ...
Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather Top List of Most Likely and Impactful Risks in Next 10 Years
Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather Top List of Most Likely and Impactful Risks in Next 10 Years
Valerie Byer 17 Dec 2018
Natural disasters are among the greatest risks the world will face in the next 10 years, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Re...
Reaching the last mile – Early Action Messaging through the WhatNow Service
Reaching the last mile – Early Action Messaging through the WhatNow Service
Valerie Byer 14 Nov 2018
At the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management ( or “ISCRAM”) Asia Pacific Conference last week, disaster industry professi...
Typhoon Haiyan: 5 Years On in the Philippines
Typhoon Haiyan: 5 Years On in the Philippines
Avatar photo Miguel Aguirre 09 Nov 2018
Five years ago today, one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Philippines made landfall. Typhoon Haiyan took more than 6,000 lives on the isl...
Cox’s Bazar: Migrants are Taking Action as the Rains Fall
Cox’s Bazar: Migrants are Taking Action as the Rains Fall
Avatar photo Miguel Aguirre 30 Jul 2018
When rain falls in Kutupalong -a temporary home for displaced families in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh -it’s not merely an inconvenience. It...
Cyclone Preparedness Programme of Bangladesh
Global Disaster Preparedness Center 02 May 2018
In late August 2017, widespread violence led to mass displacement of civilians and the suspension of most aid activities in the Rakhine State of Myanm...
Building resilience in Coastal Urban Communities
Colin Fernandes 17 Apr 2018
Urbanization is bringing many new challenges and opportunities, for example, natural hazards pose major risks to critical infrastructure and large pop...
The Importance of Mental Preparedness Prior to a Major Natural Disaster
The Importance of Mental Preparedness Prior to a Major Natural Disaster
Courtney Myers 04 Dec 2017
In 1980, Mount St. Helens experienced a major volcanic eruption. More than 57 people were killed as a direct result of the eruption, which experts bel...
Preparing for flooding during 2017 rainy season in Nigeria
Preparing for flooding during 2017 rainy season in Nigeria
Kenechukwu Onukwube 22 Jun 2017
In view of the anticipated fluvial flooding and that from overflow of rivers in some communities especially those that are located in the River Benue ...
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