Advocacy and media

This theme covers advocacy and awareness raising of disaster risk reduction (DRR) including through traditional and new media, as well as guidance for journalists reporting on disasters, guidance on communicating about climate change and extreme weather attribution.

Visit the Risk Media Hub: a toolkit for news media professionals reporting on disasters and resilience. he toolkit provides an array of resources to help journalists tell the other side of the disaster story and raise critical questions to help societies become more resilient.

Explore the Disaster Risk Communication Hub: the risk communication hub aims to support practitioners - from any sector - who are planning public risk communication strategies with the general public.

Latest Advocacy and media additions in the Knowledge Base

Documents and publications

A fully illustrated book Real Risk offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred since the publication of Know Risk in early 2005. It brings together the

Documents and publications

This book provides guidance, policy orientation and inspiration, as well as serving as a reference for lessons on how to reduce risk and vulnerability to hazards and to meet the challenges of tomorrow. It is intended for people who have an interest in and

Documents and publications

This book aims to improve the South Asian media’s coverage of disasters. It attempts to do this in two ways: first, by providing the media with a better understanding of disasters and their causes; second, by showing how to adopt a more progressive

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Documents and publications
This Media Kit has been developed as a guide for media professionals in five Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Timor Léste and Vietnam) to raise the awareness of media professionals about their role in disaster risk reduction.
Documents and publications
This Guide has been created to provide advice on useful strategies for implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (HFA).
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Educational materials
UNDRR and UNICEF have together produced an educational kit for children called “Let’s learn to prevent disasters!”.
Documents and publications
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). It provides solutions to problems associated with disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and property.
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Documents and publications
This is issue Number 14 (July-August 1993) of the STOP Disasters magazine. STOP Disasters was a magazine devoted to disaster prevention.
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