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Education Safe from Disaster- Annual Update Oct 2017-Sep 2018
From 2015 to 2018, ESD as an Asia-Pacific regional strategy has sought to reduce preventable deaths and injuries due to disasters, and ensure children can have safe and continued access to a quality education. We aim to strengthen and prepare systems and
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Addressing the Humanitarian-Development Nexus in the Horn of Africa
Protracted crises resulting from prolonged conflict, recurring drought, and natural hazards, as well as cycles of displacement characterize several parts of the Horn of Africa (HoA). The scale of crises, stretched resources and the need to support communi
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Introduction to Trauma Awareness and Resilience: Including a supplemental leaders' workshop and staff support session
The training exercises in this manual are the culmination of a 2-year process that involved many people from within and outside of South Sudan. It began in 2015 with several facilitator trainings that were rolled out in Duk County (Jonglei State) over the
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Research-into-Action Brief: Child-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction
The past decade has seen an increased focus within research and practice on placing children at the centre of efforts to reduce disaster risk, including those risks associated with climate change. An increasing body of research demonstrates that children
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Research-into-Action Brief: Early Childhood and Disaster Risk Reduction
The impacts of hazards and threats can be significantly modified through adequate risk reduction and preparedness. The factors that contribute to effective Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) have been documented and widely applied. However, the nuances of DRR
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Research-into-Action Brief: Children's Impacts on Household Safety
This Research-into-Action Brief outlines what is known about Child-centred Risk Reduction (CCRR) education approaches that have proven effective in improving household risk and resilience levels. The need for improved program design and practice-based res
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Fortaleciendo la Respuesta ante Desastres en el Perú
Lecciones Aprendidas del Fenómeno El Niño Costero 2017 en el Perú aims to strengthen the response to disasters in the country and promote a useful reflection of recurrent phenomena in the context of the climate change. The objective of this research was t
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Research-into-Action Brief: Including Children in Disaster Risk Reduction
Research shows that inclusion is easier to put forward in policy guidelines than to translate into practice. This brief explores how inclusion is a long-term process that requires sustainable transfer of power to people, including children, who usually la
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Learning from Community-led Resilience Responses in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Since 2015, L2GP (Local to Global Protection) has worked with the YMCA East Jerusalem Women’s Development Program (EJYMCA) in Palestine to co-develop and test practical ways for vulnerable communities in the West Bank to design and implement their own pro
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Displaced and Host Communities Livelihoods and Food Security in Borno State, Nigeria: HEA Urban Baseline Report
The Household Economy Approach (HEA) was developed in the early 1990s by Save the Children UK in order to assist humanitarian practitioners in predicting short-term changes in a population’s access to food. It is a livelihoods-based framework for analysin
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Building Climate Resilience: Lessons and recommendations from a community-based adaptation project in Vanuatu
Vanuatu is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change and disaster risks. Located on the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ and in a ‘cyclone belt’, it is uniquely sensitive to a wide range of climate and disaster risks, including tropical cy
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Lessons from Inclusive Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction in Earthquake-affected Areas of Nepal
When two earthquakes hit Nepal in 2015 with devastating consequences. the need for greater disaster preparedness on a community level, increased capacity for information management, and disaster response coordination became clear. Mission East, partnerin