Disaster Risk Reduction Programming in Asia and the Pacific

Annual Report FY 24 October 2023 to September 2024

Painting lives with blue

Margarettha Siregar shares six things the humanitarian industry should learn from the 2004 tsunami disaster

World Vision Haiti's earthquake response provided WASH, food, shelter, health, and child protection support to over 155,000 vulnerable individuals.

For the next few months, the only news that mattered in Indonesia, and probably around the world, was the mega Aceh Earthquake and Tsunami disaster, which that had claimed the lives of 230,000 people across multiple countries, including 100,000 of them in Aceh. It was a global grief moment.

Emergency Relief to Earthquake Affected Populations in Nepal Project was funded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and was implemented from March of 2024 to June of 2024 as a part of West Nepal Earthquake Response Project initiated after the devastating earthquake in Bajhang and Jajarkot districts of Nepal.

This report, “Advocates for Change: Asia Pacific Children and Youth’s Voices & Perspectives on Climate Action and Disaster Risk Reduction”, is the result of the collaboration between partners from different development organizations. This project commenced in May 2024 and culminated in the launch of the report in October 2024 by the Asia Pacific Coalition for School Safety (APCSS).

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