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PfR's stresses on building back better; read more in the Spring 2021 newsletter
03/05/2021 - The world has changed during the past year, and it will take time to recover from the present pandemic. But there are also chances: let's build back better after COVID-19, with a focus on the environment and climate change.
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Strengthening community resilience in conflict
23/04/2021 - PfR experiences conflict in many forms and at all levels, whether between stakeholders in the PfR focus regions, or in the context of large-scale or structural violence and insecurity which hampers the entire environment in which partners work.
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Youth as important agents of change
09/04/2021 - Youth are important agents of change, playing a great role in spreading messages and building awareness on climate change, environmental issues, disaster risk reduction, and more recently, in COVID-19 response.
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Urban Action Kit
21/03/2021 - This new Urban Action Kit is a quick-start, low-cost, do-it-yourself guide to urban resilience activities that will increase a community-based organization’s visibility and engagement on urban issues. Activities in the Kit require little to no funding; are short-term engagements; and use existing networks and skills.
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A new toolbox on advocacy capacity strengthening
11/03/2021 - The Advocacy Capacity Toolbox for Resilience provides PfR’s best used tools to anyone looking for practical resources to support advocacy capacity related to disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and ecosystem management and restoration. The tools are all available online.
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Inspiring women in the spotlight on International Womens Day 2021
05/03/2021 - Disasters do not strike everyone equally; gender-sensitive approaches are required in disaster management, from emergency response to long-term resilience to reduce disaster risk and to adapt to climate change. Inspiring women, engaged in the PfR programme, share their stories.
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Nature based solutions for climate action
25/02/2021 - Nature based solutions can play an important role in climate action. In recent years PfR has invested in several nature based solutions to reduce the impact of climate related disasters, and presently PfR, in cooperation with UN Environment, develops models for Eco-DRR solutions.
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Climate and disaster resilience in Indonesia “We have made our mark”
16/02/2021 - PfR has been active in Indonesia for 10 years, strengthening the resilience of many local communities. This has been done partly by supporting concrete measures, as well as through influencing policies, practices and investments. Yohan, actively involved in the PfR programme Indonesia since 2014, looks back.
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“What we did won’t stop because we stopped”: Climate resilience in the Philippines
10/02/2021 - For the last decade, PfR/ Cordaid has worked on disaster recovery and resilience in South-East Asia. As of 2021, Cordaid has decided to conclude this work. Anat Prag, Country Director of Cordaid Philippines, looks back and reflects on the past 10 years.
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PfR exhibition at the Climate Adaptation Summit 2021
19/01/2021 - Climate change affects us all, but hits some of us harder than others. Africa is on the frontline of climate change, affecting food security, water availability and economic growth. Much more needs and can be done to adapt to a changing climate; PfR will share some of its inspiring climate adaptation examples at the CAS2021.
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