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Natural disasters: how can we improve?
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How can we improve our response to natural disasters and ensure lessons learnt benefit vulnerable communities worldwide in the long-term?
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Interview with Robert Hodgson
Robert Hodgson, Chair of RedR, discusses how RedR helps communities to recover following natural disasters, sharing lessons and teaching local communities and discusses the work being carried out in countries such as Haiti and Bangladesh.
Interview with Brendan Gormley
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is a charity that launches and coordinates national appeals in response to disasters overseas. Brendan Gormley, chief executive of DEC talks to us about natural disasters, improvements to humanitarian response, long-term recovery and the lessons currently being learnt and shared in Haiti.
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The World Health Organisation have highlighted common misconceptions regarding natural disaster
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