Preparedness

Traditional Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) models often conceptualize risk as a uniform condition affecting populations and assets equally. This article challenges this paradigm.

What mattered was participatory learning over time: people being invited into respectful conversations, treated as capable decision-makers, and supported to work through risk in ways that made sense within their own lives.

Study believed to be the first to test this method in real-world farming conditions; soil amendments resulted in fewer locusts, less damage and a doubled crop yield.

Representatives from humanitarian organisations, meteorological services, public institutions, and university partners from Start Network FOREWARN programme gathered in Antsirabe, Madagascar to reflect on the lessons learned from the last cyclone season.

Growing up in Greece, wildfires were a constant presence each summer. Those experiences shaped my curiosity about how people could better respond to such disasters. Wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent and harder to manage worldwide.

The purpose of this document is to provide an overall framework to guide the country in developing, coordinating and implementing its NAP process.

This publication presents The Gambia’s National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) on Climate Change, outlining the country’s most urgent adaptation priorities in response to current climate variability and projected climate change impacts.

This Plan aims at increasing climate resilience in national and sectoral public, private and civil planning and budgeting processes.