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The DRR Community Voices share personal stories and perspectives from the disaster risk reduction trenches on reducing risk and building resilience.

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A tired and stressed worker sweating from the hot weather in the summer working in a port goods cargo shipping logistic ground,
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Kristin VanderMolen Nicholas Kimutis Benjamin Hatchett

Improving heat risk education and warning messaging: 3 recommendations

As population exposure to extreme heat increases, government agencies are developing heat health warning systems to support the public in taking protective action. The reach and effectiveness of these interventions is still a concern.
Early warnings, Mozambique
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Carina Fearnley

How can we enhance inclusivity in warnings? The 5 elements

While we have seen many high-level commitments and policies supporting the development and implementation of inclusive warnings, there is still considerable effort needed to translate these commitments into effective actions.
Aerial view of the old town in Klaipeda, Lithuania
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Domas Miežetis Ana Gabrielė Sabancevaitė

Lithuanian youth activists and schools mark Earth Day with workshops on risk education

In Klaipėda, Lithuania, a group of young climate and ecology activists decided to mark Earth Day by inviting 300 students to develop a disaster prevention and response plan to avoid a climate apocalypse in Lithuania.
Inclusive early warnings for all
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Kevin Blanchard

We need to work on our early warning development process to ensure LGBTQIA+ people are included

LGBTQIA+ people are often some of the most marginalised in disasters. We need to build early warning systems that are inclusive of all of society – and that involve marginalised communities in all stages of their development.
Children in Monrovia, Liberia
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Gemeh Buway-Roberts

Mapping Liberia’s resilient future

In Liberia, challenges abound, but progress will prevail. Joining MCR2030 is helping its cities build resilience to disease outbreaks, and reducing the impacts of natural hazards.
Forest restoration project, The Gambia
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Fatoumatta L Sisay

Communities, contingency plans, and nature-based approaches: The Gambia’s path to resilience

The Gambia is building resilience, to reduce the impacts of hazards, so that they needn’t result in disaster. The country's National Disaster Management Agency recently joined MCR2030 as a way to make The Gambia more resilient to hazards.
Women leaders
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Women leaders in DRR working for inclusion

Profiles of advocates working to reduce the risks faced by people living with disabilities, and to make disaster risk reduction, essential services and whole societies across the Asia-Pacific region more inclusive for people living with disabilities.
Majuli island
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Homolata Borah: "We need to understand the importance of solution-based approaches"

Dr. Homolata Borah has been working towards reducing disaster risk for some of the most vulnerable communities living in the world’s largest inhabited river island of Majuli in the state of Assam in India.

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