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Mainstreaming Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction in Community Development - Guidance for Planning and Practice
by Shaun Grech Preface Disasters, including climate related ones, are on the rise. They are a major source of injuries as well as impairments which may result in disabilities. Persons with...
Guidelines For Planning and Practice: Integrating DIDRR Into Community Development Programmes
These two new publications offer practical insights into how communities can improve their disaster preparedness while protecting the progress they have made in their development programmes. ...
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More than 90 UK civil society organisations have written to the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today to demand that he keeps his promise on climate finance
More than 90 UK civil society organisations from environment, international development, education, trade union, disability inclusion, trade, humanitarian, business, and faith groups have written to...
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Introducing the CBM Inclusive Humanitarian Action Initiative
With 50 years of experience in emergency response, CBM has established the Inclusive Humanitarian Action initiative prioritizing the growing needs of persons with disabilities in times of crisis. In...
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Strengthening Inclusive Humanitarian Response for Persons with Disabilities
In today's world, the frequency and severity of natural disasters and crises have been on the rise, leaving millions of people in dire need of assistance. CBM recognizes the importance of responding...
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Despite the Challenges, We Reached More Persons with Disabilities in 2022
When CBM's founder, Pastor Ernst J. Christoffel, opened the first home for persons with disabilities in 1908, war, disease and uncertainty were eminent - causing untold suffering, disabling many...
WorldRiskReport 2022 - Focus: Digitalization
Press release | WorldRiskReport 2022 with focus on digitalization Completely revised WorldRiskIndex 2022 shows: Very high disaster risk for the Americas and Asia, Germany no longer at low risk ...
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Inclure les personnes handicapées dans la réduction des risques de catastrophes: Une étude de recherche dans huit pays d'Afrique, d'Asie et d'Amérique du Sud/Centrale
Résumé exécutif Les personnes handicapées font partie des personnes les plus touchées par les risques naturels et les catastrophes d'origine climatique, mais elles risquent davantage d'être exclues...
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Inclusión de las Personas con Discapacidad en la Reducción del Riesgode Desastres: Un estudio de investigaciónen Ocho Países de África, Asia, América del Sur y América Central
Resumen ejecutivo Aun cuando las personas con discapacidad son de las más impactadas por los riesgos naturales y desastres inducidos por el clima, estas son quienes más probabilidades tienen de ser...
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Including Persons with Disabilities in Disaster Risk Reduction: A Research Study from Eight Countries of Africa, Asia and South/Central America
Executive summary Persons with disabilities are among those most impacted by natural hazards and climateinduced disasters, yet more likely to be excluded from disaster risk reduction (DRR) related...
G7 Call for International Cooperation to Protect Children’s Right to Education in Emergencies and Crises
COVID-19, climate-induced disasters, the Afghanistan crisis, the Ukraine conflict, and other forgotten crises – threats against global stability and security are at extraordinary highs and projected...
WorldRiskReport 2021 - Focus: Social Protection
SOCIAL PROTECTION CRUCIAL FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION Focusing on social protection, the new WorldRiskReport is released today. Berlin, September 15, 2021. Focusing on social protection, the new...
Call to Action Letter on Cash Coordination [EN/AR]
Dear Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator, The lack of predictable and accountable coordination arrangements for humanitarian cash continues to hamper the scale, quality and...
An open letter to States and their Leaders from the civil society organizations working with and for the 270 million people facing hunger, starvation or famine all over the world
Every day, we bear witness to suffering and resilience. In Yemen, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Burkina Faso, DRC, Honduras, Venezuela, Nigeria, Haiti, CAR, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Sudan and beyond...
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Nearly 200 charities call on PM not to do a u-turn by reducing UK spend on aid
Nearly 200 UK humanitarian, development and domestic charity leaders and leaders, including The National Federation of Women’s Institutes, Save the Children, Greenpeace UK, UNICEF UK and Friends of...
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CBM Launches New Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (iDRR) Application
Marking the International Day of Persons with Disability, CBM launches a new Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (iDRR) application (www.cbm.org/i-drr) and releases a new version of its...
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Inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action: 39 examples of field practices, and learnings from 20 countries, for all phases of humanitarian response
On December 3rd, CBM, Humanity & Inclusion – Handicap International (HI), and the International Disability Alliance (IDA) mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by releasing a...
CBM Welcomes IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action
CBM representatives were present in New York on 12 November for the launch of the first-ever Guidelines on the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action by the Inter-Agency...
WorldRiskReport 2019 - Focus: Water Supply
Water shortage exacerbates disaster risk Berlin, September 17, 2019 – With record breaking high temperatures around the world and increasing droughts, climate change exacerbates water supply problems...