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Building resilience for a - BETTER WORLD - Capacity Statement: Disaster Risk Reduction

25 Sep 2020

To achieve this, we focus on developing early warning systems and climate information services, applying our expertise in research and innovation, last mile early warning and communication, knowledge management, and stakeholder engagement to deliver eective and inclusive solutions to key resilience challenges for vulnerable communities. [...] We work across the areas of risk knowledge, monitoring and warning, communication and dissemination, response capability, governance, multi-hazard early warning, and gender and social inclusion to build and strengthen holistic and transformative systems which work for people and communities at risk of disaster. [...] Areas of expertise Four paths to achieve change: Research and Innovation: Last Mile Early Warning Putting Science into Practice and Communication We partner with innovative researchers Tailoring early warning systems to reach in the field of disaster risk reduction the last mile, including the most vulnera- and early warning systems, working ble and marginalised populations, means with them to ens. [...] Global Knowledge Sharing Stakeholder Consultation, Analysis and Advice By supporting eective learning, we strengthen resilience to hazards around We undertake scoping, needs analysis the world by facilitating and managing and stakeholder consultation in areas the synthesis, dissemination and uptake relating to Disaster Risk Reduction, of knowledge generated by projects Early Warning and Climate Se. [...] It is management and coordination of the consortium, working with stakeholders to co-produce support in the development of research and research demand-led, people-centred science and solutions to outputs to ensure relevance and usability, synthesis of improve risk assessment, preparedness, early action all the knowledge generated by the dierent research and resilience to natural hazards.
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