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Generous donors made the guide development possible including contributions from Catholic Relief Services, Save the Children, Mercy Corps, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID’s Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), the Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection (ECHO), and Fidelity Charitable Trustees’ Philanthropy Fund.
Testimonials
"Toward Resilience is a book that every DRR and CCA practitioner would like to have because it has almost everything we need to know starting from definition to generic tools."
T. R. Ade Darmawansyah Putra, Program Specialist for Plan Indonesia (formerly CARE Indonesia)
“Toward Resilience will be a practical reference book for me and my team members working on community-based DRR to find solutions for my project related issues, which in a normal situation I do not get from my colleagues or supervisor.”
Bijoy Krishna Nath, Head Of Risk Reduction and Response for Concern Bangladesh
Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) – a formal approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster – and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) - work to reduce vulnerability to the effects of global warming – are crucial to humanitarian and development programs.
After more than two years of fundraising, workshops, writing and peer review, Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation is available to download (free) and buy.This introductory resource is for development and humanitarian teams; it is intended for practical use in the field and special training to use the guide is not needed. The guide is a resource for program managers, project coordinators, community mobilizers, technical specialists and others to understand and apply an integrated, rights-based approach to disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA).
Toward Resilience highlights the needs of key vulnerable groups such as women, children, and high-risk communities and explains how DRR and CCA can be integrated into program cycle management. It focuses on how DRR and CCA approaches and principles can be applied in key sectors, such as food security, natural resource management and education, as well as key contexts, such as conflict, early recovery, and urban areas. The guide also includes a chapter on DRR and CCA governance and advocacy and offers practical case studies, a glossary and website links to recommended resources and tools.
This is an excellent guide, having contributions from all over the world makes it a book by ourselves for ourselves thus quite relevant to our work in East Africa.”
Japheth M. Muli, ECB Kenya consortium focal point, Catholic Relief Services Kenya
The guide is available as a free PDF in English, French and Spanish.
Purchase a copy in English from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com, or in English, French and Spanish from Practical Action.
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