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NARRI Consortium wins 2013 Sasakawa Award
The National Alliance for Risk Reduction and Response Initiative (NARRI) Consortium from Bangladesh, which is led by ActionAid, has been awarded the 2013 UN Sasakawa Award – the highest award for...
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Resilience Disempowered
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction conference centre in Geneva is bustling with over 3000 people representing governments, the UN, NGOs, academia and the private sector. They have gathered...
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International Disaster Reduction Day
Today is International Disaster Reduction Day. As is the case every year, this year’s edition has a specific focus, the one billion people around the world who live with some form of disability.The UN...
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International Day for Disaster Reduction Celebration in Mazar
For many people living in the capital or cities less vulnerable to natural disasters, days such as International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) doesn’t prompt their mind but a small celebration by...
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International Day for Disaster Reduction in Guatemala
After a year in which our country saw loss of lives and homes to flooding and earthquake – and an increase in people taking action to prevent disaster– Guatemala’s commemoration of international...
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Enough is Enough – ActionAid walks out of COP19 talks
Script and screenplay at climate talks must change!-Brandon Wu, Senior Policy AnalystSocial movements from Asia, Africa and Latin America, along with ActionAid, other development and environment NGOs,...
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Building a just, safe and inclusive world
13th October, the International Day for Disaster Reduction is celebrated every year to show how people and communities are reducing their risk to disasters and raise awareness about the importance of...
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Beyond caring: Enabling women’s leadership in disaster risk reduction by...
Tessa Bolton, Jessica Hartog and Melissa Bungcaras (ActionAid International) 2017_womens_leadership_in_drr_and_barrier_of_unpaid_care.pdfMonday, May 22, 2017Women are crucial and necessary leaders in...
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Woman leader of disaster risk reduction insists, “It’s time to go beyond...
Laily Begum is a grassroots woman leader from Bangladesh. Married and a mother of three, she has been leading her community to build disaster resilience against the frequent tidal surges, cyclones and...
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