Resilient schools, resilient communities: Improving education infrastructure for Syrian refugees and host communities in Turkey

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Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Elif Ayhan |
Disaster Risk Management, Education, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Social Development, Urban Development

Three innovative approaches for managing disaster risks

When Dara Dotz, an industrial designer, travelled to Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010, she saw firsthand the supply chain challenges people were facing that had life threatening…

Emma Phillips, Autumn Lansford |
Climate Change, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Disaster Risk Management, Digital Development, Social Development

Cities of Refuge: Bringing an urban lens to the forced displacement challenge

Also available in: العربية | Español | Français  Photo credit: Mohamed Azakir / World Bank The Syrian conflict has reached the grim milestone of becoming the largest displacement crisis since…

Axel Baeumler, Phoram Shah, Julie Biau |
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Disaster Risk Management, Social Development, Urban Development

Disasters, funds, and policy: Creatively meeting urgent needs and long-term policy goals

[[tweetable]]When it comes to responding to disasters, time is of the essence.[[/tweetable]] Help needs to come immediately to save lives; recovery and reconstruction have to start swiftly to…

Zuzana Stanton-Geddes, Jolanta Kryspin-Watson |
Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Governance, Urban Development