Building Resilience for All

Publication language
English
Pages
12pp
Date published
31 Dec 2014
Publisher
Southasiadisasters.net
Type
Articles
Keywords
Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Disaster risk reduction
Countries
Bangladesh, India

 This issue of Southasiadisasters.net, focuses on the important theme of 'Building Resilience for All'. It highlights the actions that are needed and the best practices that are prevalent among humanitarian agencies across the globe to build the resilience of the most marginalised and neglected groups. As eclectic as the field of resilience building, this issue contains a wide array of experiences and opinions on this important theme. The voices captured in this issue range from UNOCHA's changing role in Asia Pacific to the emergence of the global south in the global humanitarian system as donors and from the experience of Bangladesh in managing polders for flood control to the role of the education institutes in creating a skilled and trained professionals. This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled 'Building Resilience for All'. Contents include: (i) Changing UN OCHA in Asia Pacific; (ii) The Emergence of the Global South in the International Humanitarian System; (iii) Transfer of Risk — Case of Coastal Polders in Bangladesh; (iv) Disaster Risk Reduction in BRICS Countries; (v) Understanding "Post 2015" Process and Make the SDGs a Reality; (vi) What do Social Work Students Want to know about Disaster Risk Reduction?; (vii) Disaster Management Plans in India; and (viii) Education for Disaster Risk Reduction at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT).