DRR Community Voices

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

  • Our posts from both practitioners and academics reach a global audience and can influence policy, practices and approaches.
  • We invite you to propose your own blog and submit it for review.
  • Most articles can be republished under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO Deed.
Uploaded on
Two school chidren sitting at a primary school yard
Blog
Jimena Cuevas Bikram Rana Afsari Begum Isabelle Baguisi Yasmeen Khair

IDDRR Day 2024: Young people hold the answers to building climate resilience

Many schools play a vital role in keeping communities safe during disasters. However, the lessons learned within the walls of these buildings can be just as impactful for building resilience to climate hazards.
Close up shot of a building for use by people with visual impairment.
Interview
Ioannis Vardakastanis Evangelia Kallimani Dimitrios Alexandris Efstathia Athinaiou Sofia Karma

Inclusive evacuation exercises in multi-hazard scenarios: lessons learnt from Greece

An inclusive evacuation exercise took place in October 2023, organized by the European Center for Forest Fires, the General Secretariat of Civil Protection, and the National Confederation of Persons with Disabilities. PW interviewed the key stakeholders.
Flood Early Warning System (EWS) installed in Kampung Warna Warni Jodipan, located beside Brantas River, Indonesia
Blog
Samira Pfeiffer Maria Dewi Karen Dall Markus Reichstein Muhibuddin Usamah Saskia E. Werners Himanshu Shekhar Michael Hagenlocher

Strengthening equitable, impact-based early warning through artificial intelligence: four key perspectives

Understanding the opportunities and challenges of achieving equity in multi-hazard impact-based forecast and warning service through artificial intelligence (AI) is critical to ensuring that services benefit all.
Woman with an umbrella walking through a flooded street in city of Salvador, Brazil in 2015
Blog
Fabiane Parise

Floods in Rio Grande do Sul put a city’s resilience to the test: lessons from Veranópolis

In May 2024 Brazil's State of Rio Grande do Sul was struck by catastrophic floods. The city of Veranópolis was one of the affected towns and our Risk Management Plan, set up as part of its implementation of MCR2030 programme, was put to the test.
Women voters shows their voter ID cards while standing in a queue at a polling station in India, 2018
Blog
Erik Asplund Madeline Harty Sarah Birch Ferran Martinez i Coma

Protecting elections in the face of natural hazards

Natural hazards not only present a huge humanitarian threat but also unparalleled challenges to electoral stakeholders seeking to protect electoral integrity during emergencies.
Demonstration of VisRisk at GPDRR 2022
Blog
Angela Tamrakar

Keeping people at the centre of risk data initiatives

The BIPAD Portal was developed to meet the need to convey information to the community about the technical aspects of engineering that are vital to ensure disaster resiliency.
Watercolor vector illustration of blue sky and clouds
Blog
Meg Parsons

Harnessing creativity to build resilience: An artistic toolkit for disaster risk reduction practitioners

Community engagement is just as important as research and policymaking for successful efforts to adapt to the impacts of climate change and reduce disaster risks. Discover the climate resilience toolkit that includes a range of art activities.
Portrait of Retno Atsari
Interview

Retno Rifa Atsari: “Disaster risk reduction is everybody’s business, and everyone can have their role to reduce disaster risks, including women”

In 2019, Retno initiated the idea to develop a disaster knowledge management platform that combines risk profiles and the distribution of knowledge products across Indonesia.

Is this page useful?

Yes No
Report an issue on this page

Thank you. If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window).