disaster resilience
Climate financial preparedness in the Philippines
The Philippines' Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (DRFI) strategy is a proactive approach to disaster resilience, focusing on financial preparedness and protection for vulnerable populations. Key initiatives, such as the National Indemnity Insurance Program and agricultural insurance subsidies, aim to enhance fiscal stability and safeguard essential assets, including schools and livelihoods for farmers.
Podcast: Critiquing knowledge co-production in disaster risk reduction
In this podcast episode, Minh Tran and Dayoon Kim of SEI Asia reflect on their work in climate and disaster research to critique knowledge co-production and find ways for research, policy and action to be more equitable.
Pastoralists responding to shocks: rethinking resilience
This blog post from PASTRES explores the theme of resilience in pastoral systems.
A Practical Guide to Climate-resilient Buildings and Communities
This guide demonstrates how buildings and community spaces can be built to increase resilience to climate change, especially in developing countries where structures are largely self-built.
FRACTAL Learning – Adaptation Inspiration Cases in Africa Summary
This is a summary article signposting the FRACTAL Learning modules 1-6 on inspirational adaptation cases in Africa.
Climate and Disaster Resilience Community Forum in Sutojayan Village
The new community forum has allowed occupants to understand disaster-prone maps in their area, formulate and implement climate adaptation and mitigation actions at the local level.
Framing Community Disaster Resilience: Resources, Capacities, Learning, and Action
Framing Community Disaster Resilience (textbook) offers a guide to the theories, research and approaches for addressing the complexity of community resilience towards hazardous events or disasters.
The first app to empower citizens against floods, wildfires and extreme weather events
The app enables its users to share pictures and other information on natural hazards and provides extensive information from multiple sources about the risks of suffering from these threats.
FRACTAL Learning – Adaptation Inspiration Theme Module 5
Adaptation Inspiration Theme: Building Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the City of Lusaka, Zambia
Resilience Scan: A review of literature, debates and social media on resilience
This Resilience Scan summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the third quarter of 2017.