Kashmala Kakakhel, CDKN's Country Programme Manager for Bangladesh reflects on Bangladesh's leading role as an LDC in preparing its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) [more]…

Megan Rowling reports on some of the contentious issues surrounding the global framework for disaster risk reduction, due to be agreed in March in Sendai, Japan. [more]…

Insights from the front line of disaster risk: Aditya V. Bahadur, Amy Kirbyshire, Kashmala Kakakhel and Mihir Bhat present ten key recommendations from South Asian experts on the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. [more]…

A team from ODI and CDKN respond to the Pre-Zero Draft of the post-2014 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the HFA2. [more]…

Research from the University of Sussex and University of Dhaka provides the Government of Bangladesh with an accurate assessment of the facts and figures of this growing phenomenon. [more]…

Kashmala Kakakhel, CDKN, reports from Pakistan on the approval by the Planning Commission of CDKN-supported work programme for mitigation and adaptation to the impacts of climate change [more]…

Ali Sheikh and Kashmala Kakakhel, from LEAD Pakistan and CDKN Asia, report from Pakistan on the latest political developments unfolding in Islamabad with the new Prime Minister taking oath last week. [more]…

Kashmala Kakakhel of CDKN reports on messages emerging from the 4th Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction in Switzerland, as the meeting draws to a close today [more]…

CDKN, in collaboration with partners across Asia, Africa and Latin America, is pleased to announce a new publication on Climate resilience and disaster risk management. It presents recent results from CDKN-supported projects to assess vulnerability and mainstream climate resilience into development planning. [more]…

CDKN’s Kashmala Kakakhel reports from CoP 18 in Doha on five new case studies that show how climate change is affecting communities’ lives in Kenya, the Gambia, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Micronesia. [more]…