Themes: Disaster risk management

Themes: Disaster risk management

Feature
4th June 2015
Beating the heat: Are we doing enough? Aditi Paul, CDKN’s Country Programme Manager for India reflects on the ongoing heat wave crisis in India and CDKN’s work to improve resilience to extreme heat.
Feature
28th May 2015
Earthquake in Nepal Mihir Bhatt, CDKN’s Senior Country Advisor for India and Director of the All India Disaster Management Institute, reviews what the disaster response to the recent earthquakes in Nepal can tell us about preparing for climate-related disasters.
Resource
27th May 2015
CDKN Annual Reports Read about how our country-level work is making a significant contribution to developing countries and delivering value for money for the UK and Dutch taxpayers who generously support the work we do.
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Project : Reducing resettlement and relocation risk

Resettlement may reduce urban residents' risk of suffering climate-related disasters, but it can also increase people’s poverty and vulnerability. A CDKN research project investigates which resettlement policies and practices are socially just and truly reduce future climate risks for individuals, urban regions and society.

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Project : Building resilience in Rwanda through business collaboration

Out of the estimated 123,000 businesses in Rwanda around 98% are small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and around 84% of them are informal. Climate-related hazards impact many of these businesses in rural and urban areas, for example when landslides hot, transport routes are blocked off or when flooding occurs, production processes are disrupted. Support structures for enhancing the resilience of these small and medium sized businesses, are often not within their capacities.

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Completed
Project : Disrupting urban 'risk traps' - Bridging finance and knowledge for climate resilient infrastructure planning in Lima

Born out of Learning Lima, this research project explored how environmental hazards and sm

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Gender Hub: Training on Gender Integrated Planning

This project has trained individuals in charge of planning processes in CDKN projects and organizations, to assist them to understand gender issues and address these in the planning process.

Feature
21st April 2015
What next for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction? Perspectives from South Asia Now that the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction has been established, what does it mean for South Asian countries? CDKN's Amy Kirbyshire reports.
News
8th April 2015
Challenge Fund to strengthen disaster and climate risk decision-making The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the UK Department for Int
Resource
7th April 2015
REPORT: Addressing vulnerability to the health risks of extreme heat in urbanising Ahmedabad, India Extreme heat events are having a significant impact in India, where summer temperatures are
Feature
2nd April 2015
Gender-sensitive Disaster Risk Reduction Mihir Bhatt, CDKN''s Senior Advisor for India and Virginie Le Masson, CDKN's Gender Advisor, reflect on the possibilities for more gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction programmes offered by the Sendai Framework for DRR.
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30th March 2015
Projects across Asia hope to unite disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation efforts Five CDKN-funded projects across South Asia aim to integrate disaster risk reduction measures with efforts to adapt to climate change.