“We have been building community resilience through our organizing and community development decades before it became a buzzword and long before disasters struck our communities.”
The Community Practitioners Academy leading up to the Global Platform brought together 45 community experts from 17 countries who have been coping with drought, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, land grabbing, tropical storms, floods, tsunamis, nuclear explosions, environmental degradation, climate change, conflict and epidemics among people, livestock and crops. Read community priorities for local implementation of HFA abd forumlation of HFA2 in the Outcome Statement here:
http://huairou.org/sites/default/files/CommunityPractitionersAcademy_OutcomeStatement.pdf
The Academy was convened by UNISDR, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), ACT Alliance,ActionAid, Cordaid, Oxfam GB and JANIC, in partnership with GROOTS International and Huairou Commission.
The Academy was convened by UNISDR, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), ACT Alliance,ActionAid, Cordaid, Oxfam GB and JANIC, in partnership with GROOTS International and Huairou Commission.
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