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Disaster resilience begins with people who are prepared to act when emergencies happen. Shehersaaz trained women, men and young people in Pakistan in first aid, helping communities to respond. Read their #StoryofResilience: www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #DRRDay #ResilienceStartsAtHome #GNDRMembers

For people w/ disabilities in Satkhira, Bangladesh, #resilience relies on accessible warnings, pathways & cyclone shelters, but local #DRR plans overlooked these needs. #GNDRmembers worked w/ the community to improve inclusive DRR. www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #ResilienceStartsAtHome #GNDRMembers

Malaria is a threat inside the home. A treated net protects a child, but only if used correctly. DICI Nigeria mobilised households to take up and use insecticide-treated nets, protecting children from malaria while they sleep. www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #ResilienceStartsAtHome #GNDRMembers

For many transgender people, #resilience depends on dignity, income, community support & social acceptance. Kineer Garima Foundation gives transgender women chai trolleys, and backing to build livelihoods in New Delhi. www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #GNDRMembers #DRRDay #ResilienceStartsAtHome

Overnight in April 2025, the Cauca River in #Colombia burst its banks. Presentes Corporación helped 200 flood-affected families build family disaster risk plans and prepare for emergencies. Read their #StoryofResilience: www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #DRRDay #ResilienceStartsAtHome #GNDRMembers

An #earlywarning is only useful if people receive it, understand the risk and act in time. ActionAid Bangladesh are helping at-risk communities respond in time Read Saraswati Rani's #StoryofResilience: www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #GNDRMembers #DRRDay #ReslilienceStartsAtHome #EW4All

Pakistan’s national curriculum doesn't include climate education meaning young people grow up with little knowledge of climate change. CEWS saw this gap and launched the Climate Education project in April 2026 to close it. www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #GNDRMembers #DRRDay #ResilienceStartsAtHome

“The resilience of Puerto Yumani is the result of the organised effort of all families in this community” Read Practical Action Bolivia's #StoryofResilience about a community committee who lead their community's flood response. www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #ResilienceStartsAtHome #DRRDay

Displaced families typically lose their community and social networks. Without them, families find it hard to claim their rights, access govt benefits, or rebuild their livelihoods. RMMRU’s Adaptation Rights Committees are changing that. www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #ResilienceStartsAtHome

For the Syrian refugees living in the Domoz refugee camps, safety depends on much more than a roof. #GNDRMembers MILE's Vanguard project teaches families to stay safe and protect their shared environment. Read their #StoryofReslience: www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #ResilienceStartsAtHome #DRRDay

Communities in #Niger face climate change, land degradation and tensions over natural resources. JVE Niger equips women to mediate conflicts, manage natural resources & lead community action. Read their #StoryofResilience www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #DRRDay #ResilienceStartsAtHome #CivilSociety

Freshwater scarcity and salinity intrusion have made water insecurity more severe in Akkelpur, #Bangladesh. Working alongside the community, Friendship restored a pond unused for decades. Read their #StoryofResilience: www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #DRRDay #GNDRMembers #ResilienceStartsAtHome

#GNDRMembers can tell thousands of stories of #resilience from the communities they work with and alongside. As part of #DRRDay, we'll be sharing just a small selection of them. First is PREDES in Cusco, Peru: www.gndr.org/stories/stor... #ResilienceStartsAtHome #DRRDay

Resilience starts at home. This #InternationalDayforDisasterRiskReduction, we celebrate #GNDRMembers and CSOs across the world who help households respond to risk. Read their stories of #resilience www.gndr.org/internationa... #ResilienceStartsAtHome #IDDRR #DRRDay

Have you registered for our International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction webinar? Join us to hear how #GNDRMembers build resilience from the ground up. Their work shows what locally led resilience looks like in practice. 📅 13 Oct ⏰ 1pm BST lnkd.in/eWAXD8S2 #ResilienceStartsAtHome #DRRDay #IDDRR

*Spanish below* News from #Honduras! This month, the first visit took place as part of our new Pre-Evacuation Platform for Latin America and the Caribbean project, led by @iom.int and #GNDRMember Terram Pacis, with funding from Innovation Norway. www.gndr.org/from-the-sul...

Last month, #GNDRMember CWS Japan led a technical session on land interpretation for five landslide-prone sites in #Ethiopia, part of our @lr-foundation.bsky.social funded Community-led Landslide Resilience project with NSET #Nepal & Light for Generation Ethiopia. 👉 www.gndr.org/gndr-members...

Alongside our partners, GNDR has launched a new project to put Pacific communities at the centre of climate resilience. #PacificCIRCLE was launched to supporting communities in Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga and Kiribati to lead their own Nature-based Solutions www.gndr.org/pacific-circ...

👏 Exciting news! We welcomed five new Board Members today: 🔴 Cristina Fernandez-Duran - @oxfaminternational.bsky.social 🔴 Inese Vaivare - LAPAS 🔴 Isabella Olsson - CONCORD Sweden 🔴 Marcos Concepcion Raba - @globalnetworkdr.bsky.social 🔴 Martina Venzo - @planglobal.bsky.social Congratulations!

The first to respond to disasters can't be the last to be funded. Our new report, published with the Centre for Disaster Protection, Access to Disaster Risk Financing for Frontline Local Actors, sets our seven clear recommendations for policymakers and donors. www.gndr.org/access-to-di...

9/10 frontline responders believe pre-arranged financing would change how they respond to disasters. Barely 1/10 can access it when a shock hits. Today, GNDR & the Centre for Disaster Protection launch Access to Disaster Risk Financing for Frontline Local Actors www.gndr.org/first-to-res...

Join us and the Centre for Disaster Protection tomorrow for the launch of our new report: Access to Disaster Risk Financing for Frontline Local Actors. 15 July - 12-1pm BST Register 👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CivilSociety #DisasterRiskFinancing #Localisation

Have you registered for next week's webinar? Join us and the Centre for Disaster Protection as we launch our new report: Access to Disaster Risk Financing for Local Actors. 📅 Wednesday 15 July 2026 🕐 12.00 – 1.00pm BST 👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DisasterRiskFinancing #Localisation

"The disaster is not natural. It is socio-natural." Gloria Bratschi, GNDR's National Focal Point in Argentina and President of Fundación JADE, was recently interviewed by Los Andes on the social dimensions of disaster following the #Venezuela earthquake. www.losandes.com.ar/sociedad/el-...

Those closest to #risk are often the least able to access the financing to address it. Join GNDR & the Centre for Disaster Protection for the launch of our new report, Access to #Disaster Risk Financing for Frontline Local Actors. 📅 15 July 🕐 12.00 – 1.00pm BST us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

When civil society stands together, it stops being background noise in disaster risk planning. #GNDRMembers took part in #Colombia's National Platform for Disaster Risk Management - the first in the world modelled on the global DRR platforms. Read more: www.gndr.org/gndr-members... #PN26

Early warnings only save lives if they reach the last mile. On 23 June we launch our Strategic Roadmap for Localised Early Warning Systems - built with #GNDRMembers across 88 countries. We hope you can join us! 📅 23 June, 1pm BST 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣 World Risk Poll 2026 launch! Join us at London Climate Action Week for the launch of our first 2026 #WorldRiskPoll report - focused on global attitudes to the threat posed by climate change. Register to attend online or register your interest in attending in person: https://loom.ly/BAR9vxo

"If we're thinking about strengthening local leadership in pre-arranged finance, this is really a systems and power-sharing challenge - not a capacity gap." - Sarah Klassen, Crisis Resilience Policy Lead, FCDO. Sarah was speaking at our Global Summit for DRR: youtu.be/nogRmxpuarE

"Prevention is always better than cure. The best investment in reducing cost and reducing death is investment in education and awareness." - Dann Diez speaking at our Global Summit for Disaster Risk Reduction 2026. Watch the full recording: youtu.be/8TYffCcOWrk #DRR #GNDRSummitforDRR

"#Resilience is not a project. It is not a framework. It is not a workshop. It is what happens when a community has the knowledge, the resources and the power to protect itself." Watch the full session from our #GlobalSummitforDRR: youtu.be/ubp52keOZ8E

"Even to hope is very radical these days." Day one of the GNDR Global Summit for DRR 2026 is wrapped! And radical hope is exactly what brought civil society together today! Three more days to go! You can still register 👉 events.ringcentral.com/events/globa... #GlobalSummitforDRR #LocallyLed #DRR

There’s still time to register for our Local Learning Academy webinar exploring new approaches to urban resilience in the region. Rethinking Urban Resilience in Latin America: Integration, Inclusion and Regeneration 📅 17 March ⏰ 3pm UTC 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #UrbanResilience #DRR

What do we gain by building the resilience of women and girls? This #InternationalWomensDay we asked #GNDRMembers around the world to answer in just a few words. Their responses are powerful, hopeful, and clear: when women & girls thrive, entire communities become stronger. #IWD2026 #GiveToGain

What does true urban resilience look like in Latin America today? Join GNDR for our next Local Leadership Academy webinar: Rethinking Urban Resilience in Latin America: Integration, Inclusion and Regeneration 📅 17 March ⏰ 3pm UTC Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A year after the UK govt cut its aid budget, GNDR and 93 INGOs have urged the government to restore funding, prioritise poverty reduction, and commit to a more equitable global development system. Read the full statement 👉 www.bond.org.uk/press-releas...

#GNDRMembers, have you signed up yet? GNDR’s Policy & Advocacy training on local advocacy for human rights in disasters starts soon. Strengthen your advocacy skills and learn from global experts. 🗓 3 & 10 March | 🌍 EN + FR/ES Register via the Community Platform: community.gndr.org/s/collaborat...

How can advance notice of disasters be better to save lives & livelihoods? Great working with @globalnetworkdr.bsky.social on this World Risk Poll early warnings data project. 👀 more deeply how early warning of landslides & floods from storms, earthquakes, glaciers can be improved 👀 Data ⬇️

Talking about #localisation isn’t enough. Funding must be accessible, predictable, and led by local actors. Our new story shares what GNDR members are telling us about disaster risk financing 👇 www.gndr.org/listening-to...

We've partnered w/ @lr-foundation.bsky.social to use #WorldRiskPoll data in #Ethiopia & #Nepal to support communities at risk of landslides. By working #GNDRMembers, Light for Generation & NSET Nepal, we'll strengthen the development of localised #earlywarningsystems. Read more about the project 👇

Join GNDR’s Policy & Advocacy training to build your skills in local advocacy, human rights, and influencing policy for locally led resilience. 🗓 3 & 10 March 🎙 W/ experts from ActionAid, UNDRR, academia & civil society Register via the Community Platform: buff.ly/dbov4IY

Finance shapes how communities prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. Our new project with the Centre for Disaster Protection will strengthen access to and better understand financing for locally led disaster risk reduction. 👉 www.gndr.org/localising-d... #DRR #Localisation

This is a call to #GNDRMembers shaping resilience on the ground. Apply to lead a session at GNDR’s Global Summit 2026 - a frontline-led space for peer learning, skills sharing & collaboration. 👉 Apply via the Community Platform by 10 Feb community.gndr.org/s/collaborat... #GlobalSummitForDRR #DRR

⏰ Reminder for #GNDRMembers⏰ Our Disaster Risk Financing survey closes 23 January - and we need your insights on the realities of accessing and using funding before, during and after disasters. 👉 Complete the survey via the Community Platform: community.gndr.org/s/collaborat...

We’re proud to be partnering w/ @lr-foundation.bsky.social & #GNDRMembers National Society for Earthquake Technology Nepal & Light for Generation Ethiopia. We'll be working with communities to strengthen localised #EarlyWarningSystems & build greater #resilience to landslides in #Nepal & #Ethiopia.

How can civil society turn climate commitments into real action? Join GNDR for our next Local Leadership Academy webinar exploring climate mitigation and the role of CSOs in delivering on national and global climate goals. 📅 28 January 🕑 2pm GMT 💻 Online 👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#GNDRMembers — please complete our new survey on disaster risk financing. We’re gathering your perspectives as part of a new project with the Centre for Disaster Protection on how disaster risk management is financed. 👉 community.gndr.org/s/collaborat...

Our latest #VirtualProjectVisit 🎥 #GNDRMember Abs Development Organization for Woman and Child empower women & youth in #Yemen. This @diakoniekh.bsky.social funded project is at the centre of the #HDPNexus, building #resilience in one of the world's most fragile contexts. youtu.be/AM6uslidOaM