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ONE MORE DAY 💥🌏 Webinar: #MHPSS, Climate-related Hazards and Disaster Risk Management: Methods, Tools and Approaches to Protect and Promote You and Your Community’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Before, During and After Climate-related Hazards. Date 📅 12 November 2024 at 12:00 UTC Register 🔗 https://bit.ly/3YPyQAo Organised by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) MHPSS Reference Group’s Thematic Working Group on DRR and Climate Crisis. Since 2018, the working group has sought to champion and support this area of work, through developing global guidance and resources for use, as well as seeking to share learning from promising initiatives that can inform practice. This event aims to: - Highlight the value of operationalizing MHPSS in all phases of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in the context of climate-related hazards and crises - Strengthen knowledge among humanitarian and development actors on MHPSS tools and resources to address the increasing impacts of climate change before, during and after emergencies - Showcase case studies from Indonesia and Afghanistan, demonstrating how organizations are prioritizing MHPSS preparedness actions in response to climate-related hazards

🌍 Unified Approach to Climate and Disaster Management Kenya's strategic commitment to climate change adaptation and disaster risk management is set to deepen with the National Disaster Risk Management Bill 2023. This integrated approach underscores the importance of synchronizing climate change policies with disaster preparedness and response strategies. Key Highlights Include: • Integrated Strategies: Establishing strategic coherence between climate change adaptation and disaster risk management to enhance resilience and response capabilities. • Comprehensive Frameworks: Developing a National Strategy, county plans, and expenditure frameworks that align climate and disaster management efforts across all levels of governance. • Future-Ready Policies: Ensuring that future actions of the National Disaster Risk Management Authority (NDRMA) are guided by these interconnected strategies. Join us in supporting a policy framework that not only addresses today’s challenges but also prepares us for tomorrow's uncertainties. @Kenya Association of Manufacturers @Kenya Red Cross Society Agencies @UNICEF @UNDP @WFP @IOM @UNHCR and @UNDRR #DisasterManagementBill #PublicAwareness #NSCDR #DisasterResilience #DisasterPreparedness #MultiHazardApproach #ResilientKenya #ClimateAction #WakenyaTulindane

How to boost resilience to disasters? If you want to learn more, listen to this this is a great panel discussion at the Understanding Risk forum. Thank you Raed Arafat for sharing your knowledge and experience.

The Resilient Futures: Bridging Science and Business Solutions revolved around the important role of local businesses in promoting and supporting resilience through inclusive disaster risk management and innovative solutions. It also served as a forum to discuss strategies to strengthen the public-private partnerships by businesses, governments, UN agencies, and humanitarian partners to enhance urban and rural resilience. Anticipatory action in disaster risk management and the government's key role is the subject of one of the partner events. Today the inaugural meeting of different intergovernmental bodies happened at APMCDRR 2024, which explored the group’s scope of work including mapping ongoing efforts, identifying challenges, and developing a Declaration/Plan of Action for its launch at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) in June 2025. Meanwhile, the session on the Role of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) in the All-hazards Approach acknowledged the importance of STI sector in responding to the call of Sendai Framework for multiple hazards, people-centered, and multi-sectoral approach to disaster risk reduction. The discussion highlighted the significance of STI partnerships to enhance decision-making, institutionalize disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures, and build human capacity. #APMCDRR2024 #SurgeTo2030

MapAction identified a total of 87 indicators from 49 data sources to update Eswatini National Disaster Management Agency's risk model. This work with UNDP Eswatini was part of a broader anticipatory action programme funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. Read more: 👇 https://lnkd.in/egmhzXN3 #anticipatoryaction #disastermanagement #GIS4Good #africa #climateemergency

Now - time to consider the ideas & views in the report - where the guidance suggests more obvious & accessible solutions, let's go quickly - where they are more challenging, let's go together. Agile emergency management capabilities and National resilience require a whole-of-economy effort.

🏛️ Over the past two decades, disaster risk management decision-making has shifted from a centralised 'command and control' model to 'people-centred' strategies that emphasise local participation. 🏘️ Implementing these localised approaches in disaster risk management is important for effective mitigation and response efforts. Research by the Disaster and Development Network (DDN) at Northumbria University has worked with communities at risk of disaster across the world to develop new insights into enhancing disaster preparedness. 🌪️ The research has had a significant impact. It is integral to the health policies of the United Nations (UN) Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, which has 109 signatory countries and has guided the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Framework for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management. Read more about the research and how it has empowered local communities here 👉https://ow.ly/eJQV50RMTrV #UsingGeography

🌍 New Publication Alert: Exploring Disaster Risk Governance in Nepal 🏔️ We are thrilled to announce the release of a significant new paper titled "Evolution of Disaster Risk Governance and its Implication to Resilience Building in Nepal" by Naomi Kato and Rajib Shaw in the Disaster Prevention Research journal (Dis Prev Res 2024;3:7). In this timely research, the authors delve into how disaster risk governance has evolved in Nepal, especially in the wake of the 2015 Earthquake. The study highlights the crucial role of decentralization and civil society interventions in building resilience against natural disasters. 💡 Key Insights: Examination of Nepal's disaster risk governance history. Impact of the 2015 Earthquake on governance structures. Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The role of technological advances in disaster risk management. 📈 Metrics: The article has already garnered 261 views and 80 downloads. Discover more about how Nepal is paving the way for resilient communities through innovative governance strategies. #DisasterRiskReduction #ResilienceBuilding #Governance #Nepal #SendaiFramework #Research

In a recent published article from the research center, titled ‘Components of Health System Preparedness in Disaster Risk Communication in Iran: A Qualitative Study,’ researchers investigated the various components of health system preparedness related to disaster risk communication. The findings of this study show that the management of disaster risk communication and improvement of its process are critical for Iran and it should be considered as the first steps to disaster risk reduction based on the disaster management cycle. This dynamic process has various and board dimensions such as communication, planning, and coordination, which have been discussed in detail. This one-dimensional view of risk communication should be removed and all its dimensions considered by policy makers. https://lnkd.in/ezbm5J28 #Health_in_Emergency_and_Disaster_Research_Center_USWR #Disaster #Emergency #Disaster_Risk_Communication #Health_System_Preparedness

In 2023 the National Emergency Management Ministers’ Meeting (NEMMM) commissioned the ‘Independent Review of National Natural Emergency Management Governance Arrangements’ led by Dr Robert Glasser. As the Project Director, I had the honour of working with Dr Glasser and the pleasure of working closely with his Deputy Lead Gill Savage FARPI CRPS. The report from the Independent Review was released last week and sets out a range of findings and recommendations including the need for the National Emergency Management Ministers: • To strengthen coherence for natural hazards and other risks and hazards that threaten national resilience. • Sharpen and strengthen the focus on resilience, and place greater emphasis on addressing strategic risks. • Further elaborate this focus with respect to: o Prospective risk management (higher infrastructure standards, environmental protection, etc.), o Corrective risk management (retrofitting, reinforcing, and remedial measures), o Compensatory risk management (risk financing and transfer), and o Reactive risk management (early warning systems and effective response and recovery). Throughout the Review it was a pleasure to engage with experienced emergency management and resilience professionals from government agencies at all levels, not for profit organisations, academia and businesses all contributing to emergency management and resilience building within Australia. #emergencymanagement #resilience #nationbuilding #projectmanagement