Disaster Prevention for Schools: Guidance for Education Sector Decision Makers -7 May 2010
*Consultation Version, November 2008
Join the conversationDisaster Risk Reduction Education Policy Review -6 May 2010
*Commissioned study examining disaster risk reduction education and the UN-sponsored Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015
Join the conversationEarth and Faith the Book of Reflection for Action -2 March 2011
We have entered a new age. An age where all of us will have to sign a new compact with our environment... and enter into the larger community of all living beings. A new sense of our communion with planet Earth must enter our minds
Join the conversationFrom Waves of Compassion to Waves of Transformation: Sarvodaya's Tsunami to Deshoday Plan During the -5 May 2010
*Report on the rebuilding efforts of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement following the Tsunami of 26th December 2004, the worst natural calamity in Sri Lankan history
Join the conversationGeneral Comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child -17 May 2010
*Includes CD with Concluding Observations *Includes General Comments No. 1- No. 8 (2001-2006): The Aims of Education; The Role of Independent National Human Rights Institutions in the promotioon and protection of the rights of the child; HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child; Adolescent Health and Development in the contesxt of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children; Implementing child rights in Early Childhood; The right of the Child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment *Includes other materials for the CRC at 18
Join the conversationJeunes refugies africains: construire l`avenir -5 May 2010
*Un dossier pedagogique pour les eleves des ecoles secondaires *Une vidéo (67 minutes) et un support de cours pour l’enseignant
Join the conversationPerigolandia: Brincando aprendemos a prevenir desastres -25 May 2010
*Portuguese document for children on disaster prevention
Join the conversationThe Earth Charter: Values and Principles for a Sustainable Future -19 May 2010
*Includes summary and full text of the Earth Charter, a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society, with a special emphasis on environmental challenges
Join the conversationThe Rural Poor: Survival or a Better Life? The choice between destruction of resources and sustainab -3 June 2010
*A paper submitted by IFAD to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August - 4 September 2002 *Outlines the social and environmental reasons why the international development community should give higher priority to helping poor
Join the conversationTibet the Miraculous Snowland
Tibet is such a beautiful and riraculous region. The young plateau fosters the people with a long history; mountains and rivers can never stop people from yearning fot it.
Join the conversationTotal Disaster Risk Management: Good Practices 2008 -6 May 2010
*Overview of several natural disasters that occurred in the world in 2007 *Includes the concept of TDRM and its good practices
Join the conversationTsunami: For 4th to 6th Grades -6 May 2010
*Children's picture book with information on the earth, earthquakes, tsunamis, evacuation and countermeasures *Includes teacher's guide
Join the conversationTsunami: Lesson Learnt from Japanese Story "Inamura No Hi" -6 May 2010
*Japanese children's story of a village chief who saved his villagers from a big Tsunami disaster
Join the conversationWaves of Compassion: Sarvodaya's Tsunami to Deshodaya Plan after Six Months of Action -5 May 2010
*Detailed description of relief efforts in wake of 2004 Sri Lankan Tsunami *See also From Waves of Compassion to Waves of Transformation, report issued one year following tsunami.
Join the conversationWords Into Action: A Guide for Implementing the Hyogo Framework -25 May 2010
*Guide for the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communties to disasters
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