Climate Change & DRR in East Africa
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Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Food Security in East, Central and the Horn of Africa
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Disaster Risk Management Strategy: Towards Resilient Communities

Between 1992 and 2012, disasters caused more than 1.3 million deaths, affected more than 4.4 billion people and led to US$ 2 trillion in economic damages and losses around the world. This Disaster Risk Management Strategy explains how the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) anticipates disasters and advocates for more upstream consideration of their occurrence. There are sections on community based disaster risk management and ecosystem based disaster resilience, as well as a look to the future.

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African universities reach out to local disaster managers

A leading academic has called on universities to engage more with vulnerable communities and to empower local disaster managers in their efforts to address various daunting challenges.

Dr. Mateugue Diack, of the University of Gaston Berger, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, highlighted a new Master's programme aimed at "training vulnerable people in vulnerable situations" as a case in point of what more universities should be doing...[he] outlined how the new Master's programme would help local disaster managers conceptualize the risk that their communities face, including from economic, geographic, anthropological, and climate change aspects.

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