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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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Scalability Assessment and Planning (SAP) Toolkit
The Scalability Assessment and Planning Toolkit guides Scaling and Assessment Planning with corrective actions to strengthen or enable scaling up. While scaling up is complex and fraught with challenges, using the SAP Toolkit ensures your initiative has t
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Understanding Hazard, Vulnerability, and Capacity Assessments (HVCAs) in Urban Contexts: A 5-Step Process Guide Webinar
Understanding Hazard, Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (HVCAs) in urban contexts helps you plan and choose your urban child-centred HVCA approaches more effectively. It helps you reflect upon and question the decisions you make during the HVCA and g
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Research-into-Action Brief: Developing and Implementing Comprehensive School Safety Policy
Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) has become an important policy design framework to help reduce disaster impacts in the education sector, and practitioners have a crucial role. This brief reviews how policies are developed and the roles practitioners can
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Child-Centred Risk Reduction Impacts on Household Safety- Evaluation Toolkit Development and Testing: Research report
The purpose of this research is to understand and identify the potential for child-centred disaster risk reduction approaches to have measurable impact on household risk reduction and resilience. Disaster risk reduction advocates promote educating childre
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Child-centred Hazard, Vulnerability, and Capacity Assessment and Planning in Urban Settings
To help develop Child-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction (CCDRR) in urban areas, this report provides new elements for practitioners to better use Hazards, Vulnerabilities, and Capacities Assessment (HVCA) tools. In youth groups and in urban contexts, a wide
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Understanding Hazard, Vulnerability, and Capacity Assessments (HVCAs) in Urban Contexts: A 5-Step Process Guide, Consultation edition
Understanding Hazard, Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (HVCAs) in urban contexts helps you plan and choose your urban child-centred HVCA approaches more effectively. It helps you reflect upon and question the decisions you make during the HVCA and g
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Public Awareness and Public Education for Disaster Risk Reduction: Action-Oriented Key Messages for Households and Schools
This second edition of the Public awareness and public education for disaster risk reduction: Action-oriented key messages for household and schools provide messages for all types of hazards including 13 major hazards and family disaster preparedness. The
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Child-centred Risk Reduction Impacts on Household Safety Webinar
Ever wondered which parts of child-centred risk reduction programs create the greatest impact on household safety? Listen in to this webinar to understand more about Child-centred Risk Reduction programs’ impact on household safety, a toolkit that captur
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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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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: C&A research overview
Save the Children, in partnership with the C&A Foundation and C&A, has supported a global research programme focusing on children and on urban resilience. We have produced over 30 publications categorised into 10 research topics and 3 themes. People all o