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Preparedness

The knowledge and capacities developed by governments, response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to and recover from the impacts of likely, imminent or current disasters.

Preparedness action is carried out within the context of disaster risk management and aims to build the capacities needed to efficiently manage all types of emergencies.

This theme covers aspects related to preparedness, contingency planning, disaster response plans, prevention, anticipatory action.

What’s the difference between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster risk management (DRM)?

Latest Preparedness additions in the Knowledge Base

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The BFI, Arts Council England, LIVE Green, and Julie’s Bicycle have partnered to roll out Cool Off in Culture, a UK-wide campaign signposting the public to cultural venues during increasingly frequent heatwaves.

British Film Institute (BFI)
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A senior Indian bureaucrat shared a copy of India’s Disaster Management Act with a Pakistani bureaucrat. What happened next was a cut,copy, paste job which made history in Pakistan’s policy circles.

Madras Courier
People are evacuated from the burning building
Dr Sofia Karma
PreventionWeb spoke with Dr Karma, Director of the European Centre for Forest Fires (ECFF), about her career path, ECFF’s work and her perspective on growing wildfire risks and related challenges.
Vessels queuing to enter the Panama Canal
Op Ed

In more than a century of operation, the authorities that manage the Panama Canal have accumulated some valuable lessons in risk governance that are relevant to other major infrastructure systems – and to disaster risk reduction more broadly.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Introduced in the name of player safety, hydration breaks at the World Cup have become a flashpoint for fans and players alike.

Grist Magazine
ITALERT: Assessing the quality of LLMs and NMT in translating Italian emergency response text thumbnail
Documents and publications

This paper presents the outcomes of an initial investigation into the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems in translating high-stakes messages.

ACL Anthology
Preventing future zoonotic pandemics: strengthening national legal frameworks & international cooperation thumbnail
Documents and publications

This report examines how national legal frameworks and international cooperation can help prevent future zoonotic pandemics, with a particular focus on the role of wildlife trade in the emergence and spread of infectious diseases.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
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The Nationwide Simultaneous Earthquake Drill, organised by the Southeast Asian country's Office of Civil Defense, aims to brace the population with better coordination, preparedness and resilience.

Thomson Reuters
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