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Every week the PreventionWeb team of editors selects the latest news and research, reports and publications on disaster risk reduction – here is their selection of the latest must-read content.

A South African man receives his vaccine dose in Moletijie, Limpopo province

Update

3 January 2022

Two years of COVID-19 in Africa: lessons for the world

Africa urgently needs to guarantee its own health security.

Nature Publishing Group

A satellite photo showing Hurricane Maria approaching the Caribbean islands

Update

22 December 2021

How the catastrophe bond market is supporting financial resilience in Jamaica

For Caribbean countries like Jamaica, it’s important to be financially prepared before hurricanes strike. Pre-arranged financing cannot stop them from wreaking havoc, but it can help a country provide immediate support to the poor and vulnerable.

World Bank, the

A Thai farmer waters crops with a rubber hose

Update

4 March 2021

Faster and better risk indicators: Introducing the Next Generation Drought Index (NGDI) project

Drought risk indicators are very early proxies that characterize the expected, ultimate severity of an unfolding drought event. They can be computed months before the actual harvest thus allowing for better planning and action.

World Bank, the

This image shows an African farmer who holds fresh vegetables from sustainable farming.

Update

14 December 2021

Resilience+ innovation facility to unlock agricultural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

University of California, Davis, has established the Resilience+ Innovation Facility to spark inclusive agricultural transformation among small-scale farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia with a $5 million five-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Feed the Future

Documents and publications

4 January 2022

Climate finance for sustaining peace: Making climate finance work for conflict-affected and fragile contexts

This study by UNDP, the Climate Security Mechanism and the Nataij Group sets out to address the gap on contexts affected by conflict and fragility and their access to climate finance.

Community announcement

4 January 2022

GP2022: Side event applications are open

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is glad to announce that the application for Side Events of the seventh session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2022) is now open!

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Documents and publications

29 December 2021

Powering through: A climate resilient future: Recommendations for the Indian power sector

This report seeks to describe the need for power sector resilience in India, review the main barriers in the way of building power sector resilience in India, and define areas of action for different stakeholder groups in the power sector.

A farmer in Assam carries rice paddy across floodwaters

Update

28 December 2021

Run, rebuild, repeat as floods eat away at India's indigenous land

Each time flash floods engulf their villages, the Mising people shift their homes further inland - but after a decade of flooding and riverbank erosion, they are running out of space.

Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org

Documents and publications

29 December 2021

Social protection a central global goal for ending poverty and enhancing human capital

The brief looks at policy gaps in implementing social protection to support action on loss and damage at the national level, and outlines areas for capacity-building in countries from the global South.

Update

22 December 2021

Thailand’s population of nearly 70 million to be protected by new early warning and hazard monitoring technologies

The national government of Thailand and Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) have just operationalized a new early warning and hazard monitoring system called ThaiAWARE.

Pacific Disaster Center