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Critical Factors for Post-disaster Educational Continuity in Urban Floods in South and Southeast Asia
Accelerating urbanisation is forcing an ever-growing number of people to live in areas exposed to hazards. Unplanned settlements and the lack of opportunities for individual and collective development increasingly place the most marginalised of society in
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Research-into-Action Brief: Post-Disaster Educational Continuity in Urban Floods
Education is a right of children and all human beings. Ensuring education for all children and youth is crucial for addressing sustainability goals and for adopting effective disaster risk reduction strategies. Urban floods have widespread impacts on the
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Research-into-Action Brief: Best Practices in Community-Based School Construction
This brief explores how community-based approaches to school construction can improve local livelihoods, increase community satisfaction and expand children’s access to education. Yet many development partners and government bodies fail to ensure that com
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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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Scalable Approaches, Methods, and Tools for Child-Centred Risk Reduction and Resilience Webinar
Save the Children is proud to present this webinar, as part of a webinar series on urban Child-Centred Risk Reduction (CCRR) and Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) research, sponsored by the C&A Foundation and C&A. Listen in to understand what makes an eff
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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