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'Disaster risk reduction is everyone's business'
 

Fifty percent of Jeffery's Town's population is engaged in subsistence farming on family-owned land. As a response to frequent landslides, the farmers responded by building gabion walls and terraces, which created a free-flowing drainage system through rocks that were supported by galvanised steel baskets. They also planted trees, created small check dams, cleared gullies, and added hurricane straps to buildings, illustrating a community-driven and integrated approach to disaster risk management. Read more.
 

Local governments from four provinces in the southern region of the Philippines were called upon to support and implement their respective plans that already integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Identified DRR/CCA projects include reforestation and watershed development projects, construction of weather resistant drainage/flood/river control, provision of relocation sites and climate resistant housing units, among others. However, other stakeholders were also called upon to support local governments, who should not carry the sole burden of tackling disasters and climate change impacts. Read more.

Featured Publications
 

Protected areas as tools for DRR: A handbook for practitioners
 

This handbook describes how and why protected areas contribute to ecosystem-based DRR. It is part of a series detailing how protected areas can maximise ecosystem services, without undermining their fundamental conservation functions. Read more.

UNISDR working papers on public investment planning and financing strategy for DRR: Review of Peru
 

 

This report contains the baseline for public investment in disaster risk management (DRM) and CCA for Peru. The protection, conservation and management of water, land and ecosystem resources of the watershed for risk reduction are also considered and financed. Read more.