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Eco-solutions: How to measure their effectiveness?
Ecosystem-based solutions or eco-solutions help us to deal with societal challenges. Considering only the financial costs and benefits of these solutions is not enough to understand the effectiveness of these ingenious approaches. Before replicating and scaling up, we also need to ensure they meet social and environmental objectives and as a minimum does no harm.
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2020
May,
2020
Planning for Climate Change during COVID-19 crisis: experiences from Nepal
With COVID-19 at the forefront of all of our minds it’s important we don’t forget about the threat of climate change. We must ensure good plans already in place are adhered to, and mitigation of, and adaptation to climate change is integrated into strategies for countries economic and social recovery. We need to build back better, and more resilient, after the pandemic.
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May,
2020
May,
2020
OPINION: Building resilience to extreme weather is crucial amid the coronavirus pandemic
It is vital that developing countries get the support needed to build resilience to climate change threats as well as the virus.
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May,
2020
May,
2020
Strengthening resilience of flood vulnerable communities in Indonesia during the COVID-19 crisis
Mercy Corps Indonesia is supporting the Indonesian government to enhance resilience to both COVID-19 and recurrent flooding in slum communities in Jakarta. Our experience highlights the importance of programming and messaging that considers concurrent vulnerabilities to multiple threats.
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May,
2020
May,
2020
Eco-solutions: Can nature solve our problems?
22 MAY 2020 is International Day for Biological Diversity, a day to celebrate the role that biodiversity and healthy ecosystems play in hazard mitigation and particularly flood resilience. Biodiversity based solutions or eco-solutions can help us to deal with challenges, like climate change, disaster risks, and poverty. However considering only the financial costs and benefits of the eco-solution is not enough, we also need to ensure it meets social and environmental objectives and as an absolute minimum does no harm.
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May,
2020
May,
2020
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A new Post Event Review Capability manual
The Post Event Review Capability (PERC) is a methodology used to review and learn from disasters in order to build resilience against future events. The PERC was developed by the Zurich Floo...
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Advancing digitalization in DRR and development programs in COVID-19 times
The COVID-19 pandemic seems to be here to stay for longer. Much has been opined already on the economic and social impacts that the immediate fallout from the pandemic has. Governments and o...
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Compound risks of COVID-19 and floods driving more people into poverty in Bangladesh
During August the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance have met up virtually with Union Disaster Management Committee members in Bangladesh to learn of the challenges facing communities struggli...
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Flood prone communities in Bangladesh are struggling to cope with monsoon and Coronavirus impacts
Bangladesh and its people is facing the combined threat of monsoon rains and COVID-19. The people hardest hit are those already living in poverty, in communities with high flood risk and lim...
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A new Post Event Review Capability manual
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