VISUS

VISUS helps policy makers in deciding where to focus their risk reduction efforts and interventions, based on scientific-evidence information.

[UNDRR Américas y el Caribe @UNDRR_Americas]

VII Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean #RP21

📌LEARNING LABS: From Early Warning Systems to Impact-based Forecasting

🗓️Day 3 | Wednesday 3 November 2021
🕚11:00 - 12:00 am EST

✍️Register here: https://t.co/YTYNxblDy4

[Jair Torres @jair_torres_11]

Between 2010-19 only US$5.5 billion of #ODA was aimed at risk reduction measures before disasters strike, compared to US$119.8 billion spent on emergency response & US$7.7 billion for reconstruction, relief, & rehabilitation. We must inverse this ratio!!! https://t.co/6QFDH9vMQg

[GADRRRES @GADRRRES]

👋 On the occasion of the #DRRday, @GAD3RES is pleased to share a statement 👇 highlighting the impacts of #disasters on #education and the efforts engaged by GADRRRES to update the Comprehensive School Safety Framework to integrate an all-hazards approach 🤝
Spread the word! 📣

[UNESCOsouthernAfrica #Education #Sciences #Culture @unescoROSA]

VISUS initiative set to address school safety assessments in Zimbabwe 👉 https://t.co/UOfo7Dt0Kz

@UNZimbabwe @ZIRP_Zimbabwe @UNOPS_Zimbabwe @WorldBankAfrica @kverbist @ZBCNewsonline @healthtimeszim @spikedonline @NewsDayZimbabwe @TawandaGijima

[Jair Torres @jair_torres_11]

The way how societies are “denaturing natural hazards” is an important issue to be considered in development & disaster’s studies. Climate change, fracking, & deforestation, among others, are changing natural evolutive phenomena such as hurricanes, earthquakes and droughts.

[VISUS @VISUS_CSS]

Welcome to check the articles on this #IJDRR @ElsevierConnect special edition on School Safety. An edition edited by our colleagues @mpetal @jair_torres_11 #BenWisner & #StefanoGrimaz. Study cases of @VISUS_CSS in some countries are presented.

[GADRRRES @GADRRRES]

Do you remember that @GAD3RES released a special edition on school safety for the International Journal of #DRR?
Its 15 articles are promotionally publicly available for 6 months 👉 https://t.co/tWizWzFYMB
We will share a link to one of them every Monday to well start the week 😃

[Jair Torres @jair_torres_11]

Just released! - Policy brief on COVID-19, Systemic Risk and Education Sector Resilience in the Caribbean Region. Thanks to @UNDRR_Americas @cdemacu @CARPHA1 @GAD3RES @save_children #MinistryofEducationSVG
Download: https://t.co/jkvfEMVZ30
More info:
https://t.co/C5hjTT31u2

[UNDRR Américas y el Caribe @UNDRR_Americas]

Durante el seminario Desarrollo de la resiliencia a través del planeamiento educativo con sensibilidad a las crisis, @jair_torres_11, de @UNDRR_Americas, enfatizó en la urgencia de una perspectiva integral y multisectorial.

[Jair Torres @jair_torres_11]

Together with my colleagues Irina Pavlova and Margherita Fanchiotti, we contributed to the Cindynic Studies of #RISCOS journal with an article on Science and Education for Disaster Risk Reduction: the role of @UNESCO. @GAD3RES & @VISUS_CSS are presented.
https://t.co/YLj86xOW06

[GADRRRES @GADRRRES]

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️The 3 volumes of the "UNESCO Guidelines for Assessing Learning Facilities in the Context of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation" 📚are now available online 👉https://t.co/yKAv5yKEZL
#schoolsafety #DRR
@UNESCO @SprintUniUD @VISUS_CSS

[GADRRRES @GADRRRES]

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️Article #6 of the forthcoming #GAD3RES IJDRR special edition on school safety: "Multi-hazard visual inspection for defining safety upgrading strategies of learning facilities at territorial level: VISUS methodology" 👉https://t.co/Bl9cyk5DHU

[Jair Torres @jair_torres_11]

Guidelines for Assessing Learning Facilities @VISUS_CSS are now online and ready to be implemented worldwide. Thanks to @unescoEARTH and @SprintUniUD we could now assess the build environment of schools worldwide in an efficient and rapid way. https://t.co/J7jM9zkjvD #SDG4 #SFDRR

[unescoEARTH @unescoEARTH]

The Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector's (Gadrrres) latest newsletter is out! 👏
Read more about their projects such as "Safe Children, Safe Schools", or how they are building a culture of hazard-awareness in Guatemala’s schools.🏫

[VISUS @VISUS_CSS]

Our @VISUS_CSS Methodology contributes to the whole Comprehensive School Safety Framework, notably to pillar 1: Safe learning facilities. It has been also recognized in the last @UNDRR #GAR2019 as a major contributor to #WISS, & a tool to reach the targets of the #SFDRR & #SDGs

[Jair Torres @jair_torres_11]

I am very honoured to be invited by the @globalnetworkdr and by @GAD3RES to present the Comprehensive School Safety Framework and the Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools launched by @UNDRR in the next members' webinar.

[GADRRRES @GADRRRES]

A school collapsed on 23/09 in Nairobi 🇰🇪 causing 7 deaths and 64 injuries certainly due to the type of construction and lack of maintenance
Developing methodologies to assess the vulnerability of schools is thus essential @VISUS_CSS
@SprintUniUD @UNESCO
👉https://t.co/hArBTc3zIj

[unescoEARTH @unescoEARTH]

Researchers from @lborouniversity claim that “by continuously blaming and putting the responsibility for failures of development on “nature”, we – as a society – fail to hold accountable those who create disaster risk.” #disastersarenotnatural #Resilience https://t.co/vS6nni7I0T

[GADRRRES @GADRRRES]

The school safety assessment methodology, @VISUS_CSS, aims to provide information to policymakers to help them decide where to focus their risk reduction efforts @UNESCO @SprintUniUD @USalvador
Discover the pilot project video in El Salvador 🇸🇻 here: https://t.co/V29SriaMJf

[unescoEARTH @unescoEARTH]

At this moment we are at the Information meeting on Advancing the agenda on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Application of ecosystem services and nature based solutions. @UNESCO @PEDRRnetwork @OPERANDUM_EU @UNEnvironment #SFDRR #SDGs

[GRE-LAC @GREducacionLAC]

Edgar Armando Peña consultor de UNESCO presenta la metodología VISUS en el Taller de Educación en Emergencias #educacionsalvavidas

[unescoEARTH @unescoEARTH]

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