Regional Commonwealth Round Table on "Strengthening Role of Civil Society and Media in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Mitigation in Asia"
August 18-19, 2008. Pondicherry, India
Practitioners from civil society organisations, media and development agencies from India, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Maldives and Bangladesh participated in the Regional Commonwealth Round Table on "Strengthening Role of Civil Society and Media in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Mitigation in Asia" which was held in Pondicherry, India from August 18-19, 2008.
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Oxfam at AIDMI!
Nisha Agrawal, CEO, Oxfam India and D S Kapur, Director - Advocacy, Oxfam India visited AIDMI on August 8, 2008 to discuss India's humanitarian agenda. The AIDMI team had lively moments with.
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The Right Disaster?
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Maintaining Human Dignity and Respecting the Rights is the Hallmark of a Civilised Society
A civilised society is one which puts the well-being of individual citizens, their human rights and dignity at the forefront of its existence. As civilisation advances there is also an ever-increasing number of major emergencies with more loss of life and livelihoods than ever before. |
Every major emergency in the recent past such as Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur and tsunami has posed new questions for humanitarian organisations. There is today an increased acknowledgement that answers to some of the questions are not simple due to the many interlinked issues,................."
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Should businesses worry?
Live Mint
Posted: Fri, Jan 4, 2008. 1:15 AM IST, Mihir R Bhatt
Neither the company CEO on Dalal Street nor the auto repairman at a street corner of a coastal town in India is informed of the costs of climate risks .....
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David Armstrong, AIDMI's pillar of support on livelihood options and earthquake rehabilitation finally decided to get married in Thailand!! AIDMI congratulates the couple. |
Child's Right to a Safer School:
Lessons from Asia
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In any disaster situation anywhere in the world—be it a human
induced or natural—children are among the most vulnerable groups. Especially if the disaster occurs during school time. If we critically examine the victims among the affected children, we find that girls are more affected. It could be due to their dress or any other reasons, which need to be critically looked |
into. There are several examples of such incidents where large numbers of innocent school children were killed by natural hazards in a matter of few seconds or minutes-such as Lyete mudslide in the Philippines, Pakistan earthquake, Gujarat earthquake, etc. There are many more unheard/ unpublished stories of children dead due to both human-induced and natural disasters..............
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Labh Pancham 2008
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Article published in Dainik Bhaskar
on Friday, July 18, 2008. To
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AIDMI Launches its New Website
Nisha Agrawal, CEO, Oxfam India launched AIDMI's new website (www.aidmi.org) on August 8, 2008. D S Kapur, Director - Advocacy, Oxfam India, Mihir R. Bhatt and Pushkar Gupte of AIDMI were also present on the occasion.
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Myanmar Cyclone
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Local issues, cities find place in Bali climate adaptation agenda
The Sunday Economic Times, 23 Dec, 2007,
0021 hrs IST, Mihir R Bhatt
Climate is global. Cities are local. And the emerging climate change adaptation agenda from Bali has started to bridge the gap. For the first time at Bali, COP 13, adaptation has moved from the margins to the centre of discussions and cities have found their due place on the adaptation agenda.....
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Disaster Management in India: Perspective, Issues and Strategies
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India is one of the world's major theaters of disasters. Floods, droughts, cyclones, earthquakes, communal riots, conflicts, fires, epiedmics and other disasters compound the country's chronic troubles. The social and economic progress achieved over decades by the people, and advances in physical development, can be significantly devastated and degraded by the disasters..... |
The papers of this volume provide and insight into the various aspects of disaster management in the country and it is hoped that the volume will be of immense importance to those engaged in disaster management, policy makers, city managers, academicians and students for understanding the dynamics of disaster management and evolving strategies for effective management of the disasters.
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Microfinance and Disaser Risk Reduction
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Sustainable evidence is available from across the globe that micro-finance products and services have the potential to empower the poor, particularly the poor women in the rural areas, on acquiring skill, confidence and capacity to undertake activities that can significantly lift them above the poverty line.
There is also evidence that micro-credit groups of the poor have done better in coping with natural disasters although disasters like the Indian Ocean Tsunami |
of December 2004 badly crippled their activities.
In the immediate post-disaster phase when relief and rehabilitation assistance pours in, micro-finance plays a marginal role, but when the supply of dole dries up, the poor have to fend for themselves. In this critical phase of recovery, micro-finance assumes even greater importance in supplementing other efforts for livelihood restoration and sustainable development.
This volume, which draws from the contributions in an International Workshop in Delhi during 2005, would be an important addition to the very limited literature available on the subject.
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Real Risk
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Published by Tudor Rose, Real Risk is the latest in a series of volumes addressing the risks faced by communities across the world.
Real Risk offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred since the publication of Know Risk in early 2005. It brings together the knowledge and experience of public and |
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