Back in November, Dow Punpiputt travelled to Sri Lanka with the Digital Vision team to see how Oxfam is using mobile technology in disaster risk reduction. Here she reports on the innovative project she witnessed there.
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Ed Cairns, an Oxfam senior policy adviser, looks back on a very mixed year in humanitarian crises.
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Typhoon Bopha (known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pablo) has devastated the seaweed farmers of Hinatuan, who were only just starting to recover from 2011's Typhoon Washi (local name Sedong). Dante Dalajaban draws a parallel with the recent knockout of celebrated Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao.
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Ines Smyth reports back on the event held to mark International Disaster Risk Reduction Day 2012.
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On the eve of The International Day for Disaster Reduction, Oxfam's Global Humanitarian Gender Adviser Tess Dico Young reports on a project that enabled women from marginalised Dalit communities to lead sanitation and disaster risk reduction activities in Darchula Distruct, Western Region, Nepal.
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Understanding how disasters affect people differently depending on gender and other aspects of their identity is a critical starting point for emergency response. Guest editor Joanna Hoare introduces the humanitarian issue of Gender & Development.
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Senior Gender Adviser Ines Smyth is in Myanmar working on a project which aims to increase resillience to disasters. Here she discusses the realities of working in consoritum with Yangon-based Humanitarian Programme Officer Kyie Soe.
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Next week, Senior Gender Adviser Ines Smyth will be in Myanmar working on a new approach to disaster preparation that focuses on capacity rather than their vulnerability. Right now she's still in Oxford and here gives us a glimpse into her work.
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