This publication looks at crowdsourcing as an innovative and useful approach for facilitating crisis-mapping as a whole. Benefits and potentialities as well as limits and possible strategy solutions are examined. A selection of existing tools and their target user groups are surv...

THE requirement for a sustainable approach to flood management involves taking an informed catchment approach, using natural river processes to manage floods where they arise, not just where they have their effect, and putting the emphasis on soft engineering solutions. Achieving...

This report aims to contribute to better informed EU, national and subnational strategies, plans and multi-stakeholder processes for enhancing the coherence between CCA and DRR. It explores how public policies and risk management practices can foster coherence, and to what extent...

Bangladesh is the first and most at risk country to the impacts of climate change. SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL has implemented Disaster Risk Reduction activities in Satkhira District since 2010. It supported communities to identify hazards but also local adaptive capacities, and ...

From storing food to drying vegetables, this video explores how Burmese families are preparing for floods....