Preventionweb Knowledge Base (the knowledge platform for disaster risk reduction)

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Policy workers, educators, local authorities, community groups

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

PreventionWeb is the global knowledge sharing platform for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience. The site offers a range of knowledge products and services to facilitate the work of DRR professionals and is managed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

PreventionWeb's knowledge library covers disaster risk reduction (DRR), disaster risk management (DRM), climate change adaptation (CCA), and disaster resilience. The curated content includes replicable or scalable DRM projects and initiatives, enhances catastrophe risk understanding, showcases efforts to meet the Sendai Framework targets, and promotes DRR advocacy.

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The resource is most strongly linked with SDG 11.B; the educational content would supports SDGs 4.7, 12.8 and 13.3. Disaster Risk Reduction aims to build resilience, supporting SDGs 1.5, 3.D, 11.4, 11.5 and 13.1.

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SDG 1.5: Build Resilience to Environmental, Economic and Social Disasters
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number of collecting programmes that aim to build resilience to climate-related events and other shocks and disasters, for example by forming collections that can contribute to related educational and research programmes.
Number of educational programmes drawing on collections that incorporate resilience perspectives.
Number of targeted programmes drawing on collections that are aimed at vulnerable groups, to build their resilience to climate-related and other shocks and disasters.
Number of research programmes drawing on collections that are aimed at building resilience to climate-related and other shocks and disasters.
Strengthen the resilience of employees, communities and suppliers by paying at a minimum the living wage and offering insurance to employees and their families, such as accident insurance; and by paying fair prices to all suppliers.
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SDG 3.D: Improve Early Warning Systems for Global Health Risks
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number of collecting initiatives that aim to build capacity for risk reduction to national and global health risks, for example by storing and preserving collections that may be of use in post-disaster scenarios, or that can be used in early warning and risk communication activities.
Number of educational programmes incorporating perspectives on early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks.
Number of awareness raising programmes that target marginalized and vulnerable groups most exposed to health risks.
Plans in place for early warning, risk reduction and management to national and global health risks.
Relationships and partnerships in place for risk reduction and management in light of national and global health risks.
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SDG 4.7: Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Numbers of people in each type of programme drawing on collections from different demographic groups.
Increases in numbers of people in each type of programme from different demographic groups.
Proportion of people involved in such programmes in relation to overall audience size.
Evidence that learners have acquired knowledge and skills to promote sustainable development.
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SDG 11.4: Protect the Worlds Cultural and Natural Heritage
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Total expenditure (public and private) per capita spent on the preservation, protection and conservation of all cultural and natural heritage, by type of heritage.
Plans, policies and procedures in place for the safe use of collections for a variety of purposes, protecting and safeguarding both collections and those who use them.
Plans, policies and procedures in place for the identification, safeguarding and protection of cultural and natural heritage at risk.
Collecting programmes in place to protect, safeguard and make use of cultural and natural heritage, addressing the needs of communities and stakeholders, and ensuring that collections can be an effective resource for sustainable development.
Number and diversity of educational, awareness-raising, research programmes, and partnerships that aim to strengthen protection of cultural and natural heritage.
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SDG 11.5: Reduce the Adverse Effects of Natural Disasters
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Collections-based research that supports the understanding and management of disasters of all kinds.
Plans in place for public education and awareness drawing on collections and collections-based institutions to reduce exposure and vulnerability to disasters of all kinds.
Plans in place to ensure collections-based institutions steadily work to reduce their contributions to disaster risk, for example by reducing pollution and waste of all kinds.
Plans in place to ensure collections-based institutions, and people related to them (including workers) are protected from economic losses as a result of disasters.
Plans in place to provide special support/protection to poor and vulnerable people and groups in and following disasters.
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SDG 11.B: Implement Policies for Inclusion, Resource Efficiency and Disaster Risk Reduction
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030a.
Disaster Risk Reduction strategies and plans in place, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, to ensure collecting institutions and collections are factored into planning, and contribute effectively to Disaster Risk Reduction.
Collections-based institutions included in local plans for social inclusion, resource use, and Disaster Risk Reduction.
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SDG 12.8: Promote Universal Understanding of Sustainable Lifestyles
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development (including climate change education) are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment.
Extent to which global citizenship education and education for sustainable development (including climate change education) are mainstreamed in formal, informal and non-formal education programmes and activities drawing on and related to collections.
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SDG 13.1: Strengthen Resilience and Adaptive Capacity to Climate Related Disasters
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Plans in place for near and longer term to withstand and actively adapt to climate-related hazards and natural disasters.
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SDG 13.3: Build Knowledge and Capacity to Meet Climate Change
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Plans in place to enhance positive contributions to addressing climate change through use of collections. Plans in place to ensure collections, collections institutions and broader society can adapt effectively to climate change.
Plans in place for effective education and awareness raising on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.
Plans in place to reduce negative contributions of collections-related functions, e.g. measuring greenhouse emissions with plans and targets in place to reduce them.
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