On 17 August 2023, Avoidable Deaths Network released its fourth Annual Report. We submitted our first Annual Report to the Institute for Environmental Futures. The Annual Report can be downloaded through this link: Download Annual Report 2022-2023
‘Gender and Technology’ at the World Anthropology Congress 2023
On 13 August 2023, Dr Madhulika Sahoo and Dr Nibedita Ray-Bennett convened the panel ‘Gender and Technology’ at the World Anthropology Congress 2023 organised by KISS in Bhubaneswar, India. Four abstracts were received for this panel, and three speakers presented their…
The Turkey-Syria Earthquake: a Foucauldian case study of the degeneration of human life
By Anil Kaan Yildirim, PhD student at Leicester University: Unlike many other crises, natural disasters like earthquakes can be prepared for through regulation and legislation i.e., safety standards in construction can be strictly controlled by authorities, or after-crisis management procedures…
Exploring Argentina
By Arkoneil Ghosh: ADN Junior Champion and member of the IAD4AD Advisory Committee- I recently traveled to Argentina from 10th June to 22st June 2023. I attended the 3rd Authors Meet of Latin America in Goya, Corrientes. During the course…
Unveiling the Tragedy: Investigating the Causes and Consequences of a Devastating Train Accident
By Arkoneil Ghosh: The nation has been shaken by the recent train accident in Odisha’s Balasore. The train deviated from its intended route on Friday at 7 p.m. IST, departing from its journey that began in Kolkata on Friday afternoon…
Celebrating International Women’s Day with the Avoidable Deaths Network
By Mr. Tom Caley and Dr. Madhulika Sahoo On 8th March, the world celebrates International Women’s Day (IWD) with this year’s campaign theme as #EmbraceEquity. The IWD 2023 #EmbraceEquity theme campaigns for gender equity; the latter understanding “equal opportunities are no longer enough”…
Avoidable Deaths of Migrants Attempting to Get to Europe by Sea
Avoidable Deaths of Migrants Attempting to Get to Europe by Sea By: Tony Moore Introduction At a Press Conference in April 2022, a spokesman for the United Nations Human Rights Council, the UN’s Refugee Agency, announced that more than 3,000…
Shine Light on an ADN’s Project: Regional Network for First Responders (RN4FR)
Shine Light on an ADN’s Project: Regional Network for First Responders (RN4FR) By: Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett and Steve Glovinsky A region as diverse and vulnerable as the Caribbean requires a continually vigilant, collaborative and coordinated approach to major disaster events.…
Reflecting on My Role as ADN’s Junior Champion
Reflecting on My Role as ADN’s Junior Champion By: Arkoneil Ghosh 2022 was lengthy yet intriguing for me. This is because I began working at ADN as Junior Champion from May. My first project was creating awareness on drowning deaths.…
Deaths Due to Lightning in the Tribal Regions of Odisha, India
Deaths due to lightning in the tribal regions of Odisha, India By: Dr Madhulika Sahoo and Dr Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett Lightning strikes kill people. Lightning deaths are increasing at an alarming rate in India. According to the National Disaster Management…
Junior Champions’ Work on Avoiding Deaths of Tsunamis
Junior champions in Osaka have been working on avoiding tsunami deaths since 2013 with one of the ADN’s presidents, Dr Hideyuki Shiroshita By: Dr Hideyuki Shiroshita On the 7th of December 2022, pupils aka the Junior Champions played several types…
Perspectives on Avoidable Deaths
Dr Albrecht Beck’s Perspective on Avoidable Deaths Dr Albrecht Beck is Director of Prepared International; member of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC); and civil expert for Population Movements and Mass Evacuations for NATO. Prepared International is ADN’s…
Perspectives on Avoidable Deaths
Professor Alois Hirschmugl’s Perspective on Avoidable Deaths Professor Alois Hirschmugl is a Regular Officer, Trainer/Expert for international disaster management, and Technical Director of DMAT Consulting KG. DMAT is ADN’s Organisational Partner. Professor Alois Hirschmugl’s Interview Transcript Do you believe it…
Updates on Sendai Goals 1 and 2
Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction’s Ignite Stage 2019: Opinions of Key Stakeholders By: Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett, Krishna Clarke and Daniel Mendez Introduction The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 set seven global targets of which the first two…
COP27 Round-up
COP27 Round-up By Tom Caley, ADN Writer Last weekend the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP27, overran by two days as delegates struggled for agreement. To follow up our previous post…
Loss and Damage at COP27
Loss and Damage at COP27 By Mr. Tom Caley, Dr. Nibedita Ray-Bennett and Mr. Alex Skinner From November 6th, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been holding its latest Conference of the Parties (COP) in…
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) 2022 By Mr. Tom Caley, Dr. Nibedita Ray-Bennett and Mr. Alex Skinner The 13th October marks the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) as designated by the United Nations General Assembly.…
Rapid Review of Flood Damage and Loss in Pakistan
Rapid Review of Flood Damage and Loss in Pakistan By Mr. Tom Caley, Dr. Nimra Choudhary and Ms. Anusha Manahil Since mid-June 2022, record monsoon rains have submerged up to a third of Pakistan causing more than 1500 deaths,…
Drowning Prevention – A Personal Story from my Village Runia, India
Drowning Prevention – A Personal Story from my Village Runia, India By Dr. Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett The 25th of July is World Drowning Prevention Day. To highlight the tragic and profound impact of downing on families and communities and…
A Poem Shared by an ADN Junior Champion
Arkoneil Ghosh, a 12 year old ADN Junior Champion from India has shared devastation and sorrow for the children in Ukraine. In an act of solidarity, Arkoneil has shared a moving poem on the tragedies of war. The Avoidable Deaths…
Risk, Crisis, Disaster and Development Management (RCDDM): Future Leader Programme
Risk, Crisis, Disaster and Development Management (RCDDM): Future Leader Programme By: Mrs Denise Corsel, Dr Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett, Dr Hideyuki Shiroshita and Dr Paul Reilly Introduction Disasters cause critically damaging human, social, financial, natural, and physical losses. In order to…
School Pupils in Osaka are Champions for Avoidable Deaths from Tsunamis
School Pupils in Osaka are Champions for Avoidable Deaths from Tsunamis By: Hideyuki Shiroshita The city of Izumiotsu, located in the central part of Osaka Prefecture, Japan, is a relatively small city with approximately 75,000 inhabitants. The city was once…
Perspectives on Avoidable Deaths
Perspectives on Avoidable Deaths – Professor Michael Peterson Short interviews were conducted to gain multiple perspectives on avoidable deaths. Dr Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett interviewed two ADN’s Advisors Mr David Wales and Professor Michael Peterson in 2021 to gain multiple perspectives…
Perspectives on Avoidable Deaths
Perspectives on Avoidable Deaths – Mr David Wales Short interviews were conducted to gain multiple perspectives on avoidable deaths. Dr Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett interviewed two ADN’s Advisors Mr David Wales and Professor Michael Peterson in 2021 to gain multiple perspectives…
Updates on Sendai Goals 1 and 2
Disasters, Disaster Deaths and People Affected by Disasters in the Caribbean Region By: Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett and Julian Coetzee Introduction The Caribbean region is a collection of over 7000 islands (Caribbeanislands.com, 2021). The region is highly prone to natural hazards.…
Avoidable Deaths Network On Air of Two Prominent Radios of Barbados
1 December 2021 LISTEN NOW ON SOUNDCLOUD Shayla Murrell – Interviewer Information Officer, Barbados Government Information Service Daniel Mendez Avoidable Deaths Network Regional Coordinator – Caribbean Krishna Clarke Avoidable Deaths Network Regional Coordinator – Caribbean The Avoidable…
Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships Awarded
Two prestigious Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships awarded to two students Hanifa Sango from Kenya and Chifundo Katanga from Malawi have been awarded Commonwealth Scholarships to allow them to pursue the MSc in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management (RCDM), while living…
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021 On this special day we concluded the first Stakeholder’s Workshop in Bangladesh for the project “Developing a Protocol for a Low-Budget Reproductive Health Kit/s during Disasters and Crises”. The Workshop was chaired by Dr…
First Milestone Achieved for the IPPF-Funded Project
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…