First Milestone Achieved for the IPPF-Funded Project entitled “Developing a Protocol for Low-Budget Reproductive Health Kit during Disasters and Crises”. We are excited to announce that after months of systematic literature review of 47 sexual and reproductive health kits, 4…
Meeting the Winners of the Art Project on ‘Hope’
Meeting the Winners of the Art Project ‘Hope’ The winners of the art project on ‘Hope’ were announced through the ADN’s second newsletter on 31 October 2020. This project was led by the ADN’s Operations Manager, Mrs Denise Corsel. This…
Updates on Sendai Goals 1 and 2
Update on the United Nations Office on Disaster Risk Reduction’s (UNDRR) Effort to Reduce Deaths: Excerpts from the Biennial Report on the Programme of Action for the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 in Africa By:…
Disastrous Floods in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kasese District of Uganda
Disastrous Floods in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kasese District of Uganda By: Dr Yazidhi Bamutaze Uganda’s disaster risk management capabilities and disaster resilience were put to the test in the first half of the year 2020. Uganda…
Indigenous Practices of Containing the Infection of COVID-19 in India
Indigenous Practices of Containing the Infection of COVID-19 in India By: Dr Madhulika Sahoo Over 104 million tribal people live in India, spread across 705 tribes (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 2018). They account for 8.6% of the country’s…
Fighting Fire with Fire: Tackling Australia Bushfires with Indigenous Knowledge
Fighting Fire with Fire: Tackling Australia Bushfires with Indigenous Knowledge By: Adelle Lim At a time when most people look forward to summer breaks enjoying on a beach or simply going outdoors, much of Australia was shrouded in thick plumes…
Design for Accessible-to-All Toilets Using Lego Models: Update from ADN’s Junior Champion
Design for Accessible-to-All Toilets Using Lego Models: Update from ADN’s Junior Champion By: Arkoneil Ghosh The first Lego League 2020 challenge was based on the theme “City Shaper”, and it made me think from a different angle. We were challenged…
Disaster Risk Governance for District-Level Landslide Risk Management in Rangamati, Bangladesh
Disaster Risk Governance for District-Level Landslide Risk Management in Rangamati, Bangladesh By: Dr Edris Alam and Dr Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett Introduction The Government of Bangladesh has been successful in reducing deaths from tropical cyclones. However, in recent years landslides have…
School Pupils in Osaka are Champions for Avoidable Deaths from Tsunamis
School Pupils in Osaka are Champions for Avoidable Deaths from Tsunamis By: Dr Hideyuki Shiroshita The city of Izumiotsu, located in the central part of Osaka Prefecture, Japan, is a relatively small city with approximately 75,000 habitants. The city used…
‘Challenges for the New World’ by: ADN’s Junior Champion, Arkoneil Ghosh
Challenges for the New World By: ADN’s Junior Champion, Arkoneil Ghosh COVID-19 doesn’t seem to be controllable and we are learning to get ourselves prepared to survive in this new world. The news of Bollywood stars being tested positive doesn’t…
‘A Reflection on My PhD Fieldwork Experience Kalimpong district, India’ by ADN’s Intern and previous Administrator, Peter McGowran
A Reflection on My PhD Fieldwork Experience Kalimpong district, India By: Peter McGowran Last year I took on a short-term administrator role with the ADN. Since May 2019 when the role officially finished, I have undertaken my PhD fieldwork in Kalimpong…
‘Reflective Short Piece on the Situation in India’ by ADN’s Junior Champion, Arkoneil Ghosh
Reflective Short Piece on the Situation in India: From Coronavirus to Locust Attack to Cyclones By: ADN’s Junior Champion, Arkoneil Ghosh “While India as a nation continues to fight Coronavirus, here comes the Locust attack, which has destroyed…
‘Project NHS Hero Inspiration Wall – Royal Free Hospital ICU’ by Intern for the IPPF-funded project on Reproductive Health, Nima Roy
Project NHS Hero Inspiration Wall – Royal Free Hospital ICU By: Nima Roy “Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.” – Anni Albers 4 weeks, 1,500+ pieces of art, 2 graffiti murals and many…
‘COVID-19 in The Netherlands: Both a Biological Disaster and an Economic Disaster’ by ADN’s Knowledge Exchange Officer, Jos Bal
COVID-19 in The Netherlands: Both a Biological Disaster and an Economic Disaster By: Mr Jos Bal, ADN’s Knowledge Exchange Officer The coronavirus (COVID-19) is still spreading globally. Currently, in the world, there have been almost 5 million confirmed COVID-19 cases…
‘Is Odisha leading to fight against COVID-19?’ by ADN’s Affiliates, Dr. Jalandhar Pradhan, Mr. Niranjan Bariyar and Dr. Madhulika Sahoo
Is Odisha leading the fight against COVID-19? By: Dr. Jalandhar Pradhan*, Mr. Niranjan Bariyar and Dr. Madhulika Sahoo The first case of COVID-19 outbreak was reported in India on 30 January 2020 in Kerala, while Odisha, an eastern state of…
‘COVID-19: A Social Response to an Anti-Social Virus’ by ADN’s Media and Communications Manager, Matthew Merry
COVID-19: A Social Response to an Anti-Social Virus By: Matthew Merry The current COVID-19 crisis has seen an unprecedented wave of governmental restrictions that would be more at home in an apocalyptic film than in the 21st Century. The main…
Belize COVID-19 Update from ADN’s Regional Coordinator, Daniel Mendez
Belize COVID-19 Update By: Daniel Mendez COVID-19 continues to cause major health, economic, social and psychological impacts across the Americas. As of 10 May 2020, there were 1,702,451 confirmed cases, with 101,874 reported deaths (PAHO, 2020). In the Central American…
Personal Reflective Blog on COVID-19, by ADN’s Affiliate, Silvia Zanini
Personal Reflective Blog By: Silvia Zanini, ADN’s Affiliate based in New Zealand I am an Italian living in New Zealand, a chartered management accountant, with a degree in Economics and Commerce from the University of Turin, Italy, and a MsC…
Digital Transformation Overnight from Our ADN Junior Champion, Arkoneil Ghosh
I must say that I have been exposed to the Digital World at quite a young age, thanks to my parents who enrolled me for a variety of courses. I recall five years back when I was doing an Online…
Social distancing a learning experience! Written by ADN’s Intern, Meharaj Bano
Meharaj Bano, ADN’s Intern and BBA Student at Vellore Institute of Technology University in India, has written a personal and reflective piece, titled ‘Social distancing a learning experience!’. It is very well written and provides an interesting insight. Please read…
Understanding Social Distance, Written by our Regional Coordinator in India, Dr Madhulika Sahoo
Understanding Social Distance By: Dr Madhulika Sahoo India’s outbreak of the novel Coronavirus has affected more than 100s of people from 17 different states. As of the 17th of April 2020, about 452 deaths and 13,835 infected cases have been…
COVID-19 Overview in Africa from our Regional Coordinator in Nigeria, Dr Azukaego Nnaji
COVID-19 Overview in Africa By: Dr Azukaego Nnaji Corona virus disease discovered in Wuhan china in 2019 commonly called COVID-19 is the current pandemic that has brought the entire world to a standstill at the moment. In world history, various…
Caribbean COVID-19 Update from our Regional Coordinator, Krishna Clarke
Caribbean COVID-19 Update By: Krishna Clarke The Corona Virus or Covid-19 as it is known, is to date, one of the world most widespread pandemics by infection rate in recorded history (Gill and Tilleray, 2020). As of the end of…
How Can Social Distancing be Achieved in Dharavi, Mumbai?
How Can Social Distancing be Achieved in Dharavi, Mumbai? By: Arkoneil Ghosh, ADN Junior Champion It is indeed a great concern for sensitizing the rural population about social distancing. The question here is not whether they want to do or…
Reflective Brief from ADN’s Solution Exchange Officer, Jos Bal
Reflective Brief from ADN’s Solution Exchange Officer, Jos Bal A reflective brief comes from our Solution Exchange Officer, Jos Bal. Jos is currently a policy advisor in the Zuid-Holland Zuid Safety Region in The Netherlands. Jos is also a volunteer…
Update from Our ADN Junior Champion, Arkoneil Ghosh
Update from Our ADN Junior Champion, Arkoneil Ghosh Coding Coronavirus: Our 10-year ADN Champion Arkoneil Ghosh has developed a coding game for Coronavirus. It’s fun and extremely useful. You will need to click to play this coding game: Coding Game –…
Birthday Wishes from Professor Peter Jackson
The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has now caused an increase in the death rate amongst vulnerable groups. Because Covid-19 took the world by surprise it is a reasonable proposition to argue that many of these Covid-19 related deaths could have been…
ADN’s First Birthday
ADN’s First Birthday By: Dr Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett The Sun Will Never Set on the ADN’s First Birthday: Tomorrow we will be celebrating the ADN’s first birthday. The ADN was launched on 12 March 2019 at the 4th Summit of…
ADN’s President Meets the Youngest Innovator in Mumbai, India
ADN’s President Meets the Youngest Innovator in Mumbai, India By: Dr. Nibedita Ray-Bennett On the 11th of January 2020, I met Arkoneil Ghosh via Skype, assisted by his mum Rini Sinha Ghosh. Arkoneil is our ADN’s Junior Champion based in Mumbai,…
Newsletter No.1: Full Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Dear readers and the ADN community, Welcome to our first newsletter for the Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN). ADN is a global membership network, dedicated to finding theoretical and practical solutions to reducing deaths from disasters. The newsletter will…
The Paradox of Similar Disaster Events Causing Different Impacts
The Paradox of Similar Disaster Events Causing Different Impacts: The Case of Tropical Cyclones Idai and Fani By: Samuel Akera It has become common knowledge that disaster often repeats itself. In the course of my professional life I have witnessed…
Saving Lives Is Not Enough: More is Needed in the UK
Saving Lives Is Not Enough: More is Needed in the UK By: David Wales Saving Lives Is Not Enough (SLINE) is the title of a report co-authored by David Wales and Kristina Stiles and published by the Emergency Services Times…
Hurricane Dorian
Hurricane Dorian By: Krishna Clarke Hurricane Dorian was one of the strongest hurricanes to pass through the Caribbean Region and specifically The Bahamas, a 700 plus multi-island nation. Interestingly Dorian first made landfall in Barbados as a tropical storm at…
Reflections from the 2019 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland
Reflections from the 2019 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland By: Pamela Komujuni Every two years Members of the United Nations, including Governments, non-government stakeholders, the private sector, academia and civil society, gather together at the Global Platform…
Updates on Sendai Goals 1 and 2
Update on the United Nations Office on Disaster Risk Reduction’s (UNDRR) Effort to Reduce Deaths: Excerpts from two UN Reports 2016 and 2017 By: Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett and Hideyuki Shiroshita In 2015, the United Nations ‘Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk…
Project – RCDDM: Future Leader Programme
May 2017 to June 2019 – Risk, Crisis, Disaster and Development Management (RCDDM): Future Leader Programme Funded by Kansai University’s Grant-in-Aid for the Promotion and Upgrading of Education and Research, this 22-months research project was led by the Principal Investigators:…
Project – Improving the Quality and Availability of Reproductive Health in Disasters
October 2015 to July 2018 – Improving the Quality and Availability of Reproductive Health in Disasters in Belkuchi Upazila, Bangladesh The world is facing stronger and longer disasters, protracted complex emergencies, conflicts and epidemics. These humanitarian crises can expose weakness…
Project – Earth Observation for DRR
February 2017 to April 2017 – Earth Observation for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Horn of Africa Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)’s International Development Innovation and Impact Fund, this three months scoping project explored the earth observation…
Supporting Victims of Overseas Terrorism: Advice for Local Areas
In the United Kingdom, the Home Office Victims of Terrorism Unit have developed an information pack, which outlines the support available to people who have been affected by the Sri Lanka terror attacks. All Local Resilience Forums across the country…
Book on ‘Avoidable Deaths: A Systems Failure Approach to Disaster Risk Management’
Book on ‘Avoidable Deaths: A Systems Failure Approach to Disaster Risk Management’ By: Nibedita Ray-Bennett Ray-Bennett’s book ‘Avoidable Deaths: A Systems Failure Approach to Disaster Risk Management’ , published in 2018, addresses one of the most pressing questions of…