This Missing Voices Approach manual provides guidance on how to implement the Approach to capture first-person perspectives of marginalized people to inform disaster risk management. The Approach...
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Open Letter to Representatives of the Sudanese Authorities regarding pending NGO visas
Your Excellencies, As esteemed leaders committed to alleviating suffering and ensuring regional stability, we respectfully write to you on behalf of the below listed international and humanitarian...
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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...
Addressing loss and damage: Insights from the humanitarian sector
Authors: Paul Knox Clarke, Debbie Hillier Executive summary This report aims to inform the vital work of the Transitional Committee established by COP27 to operationalise new funding arrangements and...
Missing Voices Approach Manual: Executive Summary
This document summarises the Missing Voices Approach, which aims to capture first-person perspectives of marginalized people in order to inform disaster risk management. The Approach requires...
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Foundations for Change: How the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance is building ecosystems for advocacy - Lessons and case studies from Year 4
1.0 Introduction The goal of development funding has always been to improve the lives of the vulnerable. To improve the lives of the vulnerable beyond the project level, however, you need to engage...
Practical Action's approach in disseminating localized flood early warning in Bangladesh
THE CONTEXT The United Nations has come up with multifaceted charters to comprehensively address the crisis of climate change. The Sendai Framework has given high priority to the issue of easy access...
Increase local government budget allocation for effective disaster management in Bangladesh
This policy brief from the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance programme in Bangladesh explores local level funding of disaster management. Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the...
From Policy Recommendations to Practical Actions: Towards Gender Transformative Practices for Baguio City’s Flood Early Warning System
This accompanying publication takes the recommendations from the Baguio City Gender and Inclusion Study and the Policy and Practice Recommendations for a Gender Transformative Flood Early Warning...
AASCTF Baguio City Gender and Inclusion Study
The Baguio City Gender and Inclusion Study Report is the first deliverable in the project “PHI: Gender Transformative Approach for Strengthened Development, Application, and Replication of the Baguio...
AASCTF Policy Brief - Policy and Practice Recommendations for a Gender Transformative Flood Early Warning System in Baguio City
The Baguio City Gender and Inclusion Study Report is the first deliverable in the project “PHI: Gender Transformative Approach for Strengthened Development, Application, and Replication of the Baguio...
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Use of the Temporary Solid Waste Facility (TSWF) Camp 20ext, Ukhia Upazila - UNDP Solid Waste Management Team Cox’s Bazar, January 2022 (2nd Report)
Use of the TSWF– January 2022 Report Use of the Temporary Solid Waste Facility (TSWF) by authorities/humanitarian actors managing solid waste in Ukhia Upazila. This is the second report released to...
Strengthening climate information services and Early Warning Systems in Senegal: Learning from the 2020 floods in Thiès
This brief is based on a Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance Post Event Review Capability (PERC) study analyzing the 2020 floods in Thiès, Senegal. It presents a series of resilience lessons from the...
REAP Country Case Study: Guatemala
Context Guatemala is the largest economy in Central America with a middle-income status. However, two thirds of the population live on less than US$2 per day. Guatemala has one of the largest...
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NGO quotes in response to COP26 Adaptation and Loss & Damage Day
In response to today's announcement from the UK of £1m to support delivery of faster and more effective global humanitarian action, including in response to climate-related disasters, Cat Pettengell,...
Using mobile phone technologies for Disaster Risk Management: Reflections from SHEAR, June 2021
Introduction The reach of mobile networks has expanded significantly over the last decade, with approximately 93% of the global population being covered by a mobile broadband network.i Mobile phone...
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Nature-based solutions in action: Lessons from the frontline - Harnessing nature to address the triple emergency of poverty, climate change and biodiversity loss
Summary The world is facing a triple emergency of climate change, nature loss, and rising poverty and inequality. These interdependent emergencies do not just represent three pressing challenges to...
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Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs): Use of the Temporary Solid Waste Facility (TSWF) Camp 20ext, Ukhia Upazila - UNDP Solid Waste Management Team Cox’s Bazar, June 2021
Use of the TSWF– May 2021 Report Use of the Temporary Solid Waste Facility (TSWF) by authorities/humanitarian actors managing solid waste in Ukhia Upazila. Summary The Temporary Solid Waste Facility...
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How the theme of adaptation and resilience marginalizes loss and damage and why we must focus on addressing loss and damage
Despite repeated calls for Loss and Damage to be reflected prominently in the themes of COP 26, the UK presidency continues to champion Adaptation and Resilience as a key theme of COP 26, alongside...
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INGO Joint Statement on the Fires in the Rohingya Camps in Cox's Bazar
We stand in solidarity with the 10,000 Rohingya refugee families affected by the massive fires in Kutapalong Camp in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh. The humanitarian community and the Government of...