Climate
The Philippines – HRI 2010 Mission
HRI mission to the Philippines: The inequality of humanitarian aid In its recent Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) mission to the Philippines, DARA has found that while the international community mobilized in response to tropical storm Ketsana and typhoon Parma [...] Read more...
Central African Republic – HRI 2010 Mission
Mission to the CAR marks the beginning of the fourth edition of the Humanitarian Response Index DARA has launched its HRI 2010 field missions by sending a team on a pilot exercise to the Central African Republic (CAR). The pilot mission, which ran from 18th [...] Read more...
DARA – Climate Vulnerable Forum partnership consolidated during UN General Assembly
DARA’s global Climate Vulnerability Report was announced the flagship communication tool of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) during their meeting held at the time of the UN General Assembly in New York. The Forum was established in November 2009 as a grouping [...] Read more...
The Jakarta Post: World in dire need of action on climate change
Source: The Jakarta Post Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Cancun, Mexico | Headlines | Sun, December 05 2010, 1:08 PM A resident of Lesotho, a sub-Saharan African country, Bruno Sekoli, could not hide his frustration with the slow progress in climate [...] Read more...
DARA’s RRI aims to mitigate impact of Haiti-like disasters
DARA continues to make progress in the development of the Risk Reduction Index (RRI) which will provide a means for measuring disaster risk reduction capacities and conditions in different countries. In the short term, this index methodology will be applied in [...] Read more...
RTVE Spain: Disaster expert Allan Lavell on the Haiti earthquake (Spanish) 
Allan Lavell is one of the world's top experts on urban and regional planning, and specializes in risk reduction and disaster prevention. He heads the development of DARA's Risk Reduction Index (RRI), a key project in the Disaster Risk Reduction Initiative (DRRI). Here he discusses the Haiti Earthquake on RTVE: La noche en 24 horas (Spanish) Read more...
Review of Risk Reduction Index
Leading experts from global and regional organisations gathered in Costa Rica in May to evaluate progress in the development of DARA’s new Risk Factor Index. The meeting conducted one of the first systematic examinations of the underlying risk factors in [...] Read more...