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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
Fears for lives of the Rohingya in Bangladesh camps and other vulnerable populations, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and imminent monsoon rains from Cyclone Amphan
A powerful cyclone in the Bay of Bengal could bring potential destruction and danger to life in communities vulnerable to flooding and storm surges, warns Practical Action which is a member of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance (ZFRA).
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May,
2020
May,
2020
Resilience thinking and action in the context of compound risks
In this blog colleagues from the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance ask how we can and should support communities in preparing for, and building resilience to, events where the threat of infectious disease is compounded with floods and other disasters.
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May,
2020
May,
2020
Women building resilience
In the Andean community San Miguel de Viso a group of women recover a vital space for their people: the community tree nursery. With ingenuity they confront the challenges brought by climate change and water-related hazards in an area where agriculture is the core livelihood.
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April,
2020
April,
2020
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It’s been a horrible year but worse will follow without action on climate change
By any measure, 2020 has been a shocker for humanity. In this blog Practical Action's Colin McQuistan reflects on the challenges we've faced, and those we need to gear up to tackle as we app...
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Sustainability, durability, long term impacts… what are we talking about and why?
Back to the future: planning for long term impacts part one. This is the first in a series of four blogs about long term impacts of Practical Action’s work where we ask: what can we lea...
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Forensic examination: what can we learn from the past?
Back to the future: planning for long term impacts part two. In this second of four blogs on lasting changes, we discuss durability factors based on completed Disaster Risk Reduction proj...
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Tools and processes to plan for long-term impacts in our current work
Back to the future: planning for long term impacts part three. In this third of four blogs on lasting changes, we discuss what we can do now to better embed “long term” thinking in ou...
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It’s been a horrible year but worse will follow without action on climate change
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