Ecosystems play a pivotal role as a frontline defense against hazards, acting as a shield to prevent disasters and mitigate their impacts on communities, critical infrastructure, and essential ...

This summary report looks at the outcomes and recommendations from a HelpAge regional workshop on disaster risk reduction held in Bangkok, Thailand in October 2012.

For community risk reduction (CRR) to effect long-term change, tragic events must be perceived as a continuous threat to all, not simply random acts of misfortune that happen to others. CRR in today’s ...

Ministers from the G20, or Group of Twenty recently came together in Johannesburg, South Africa to address major global ...

MANILA, Philippines – Next-generation business leader Jessica Sy joined regional policymakers and development leaders at the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s Women’s International ...

We must stop treating resilience as something that arrives through projects.

The Centre has approved Rs 507.37 crore for a national project to boost community-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Panchayati Raj institutions. The initiative will cover 81 disaster-prone ...