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The institutional structures and processes that drive decision-making and management of DRR programs at regional, national and local level. This theme also includes institutions, legislations, policies and coordination mechanisms such as regional and national platforms.

Latest Governance additions in the Knowledge Base

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Policies and plans

Barbados: National disaster management policy

The Barbados Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) Policy 2022 ensures that there is a strategic direction to keeping people safe and making communities more resilient to disaster and climate related risks and impacts.
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A new federal rule could offer protection from extreme heat to millions of workers

The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a new rule that would require employers to develop injury and illness prevention plans in order to better protect workers from heat-related injuries and death.
NPR
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Extreme heatwaves highlight climate injustice while western countries fail to act – here’s how governments can help

Average global air temperatures breached 1.5°C for the first time at the start of 2024 - at least five years earlier than predicted. So, while developing countries burn, global climate injustice persists.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Documents and publications

Α social protection ‘risk deal’: the missing element for connecting money-in and money-out

This working paper asks what is required for social protection systems to deliver timely, predictable, well-targeted and cost-effective shock response to disasters.
National DRR strategy of Montenegro review workshop
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Montenegro’s revision of the National DRR strategy strengthened through a UNDRR expert-reviewed assessment exercise

As part of its support to Government of Montenegro, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction in Europe and Central Asia, ran an expert reviewed assessment of the zero-draft National DRR Strategy of Montenegro 2025-2030.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
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Final workshop unveils results of Ghana’s National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment

Following a year-long collaboration to assess disaster risk and preparedness among Ghana’s diverse communities, key stakeholders reunited to participate in the National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment Final Workshop and Exchange.
Pacific Disaster Center
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The U.S. is finally making serious efforts to adapt to climate change

Transformative change will inevitably occur to bring us into balance with the new climate. The big question is: To what degree will this change be planned and orderly rather than chaotic and unplanned, resulting in great suffering?
Yale Climate Connections
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Documents and publications

Mauritius disaster management and climate change handbook

As part of an effort to ensure that stakeholders have the best information, this Handbook provides the reader with a baseline understanding of Mauritius’ national entities involved in disaster management and climate change action.
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