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Outreach & Impact

 

At IHRR we empower people, foster resilience, and improve lives (both now and in the future), of those living with hazard and risk. We do this by undertaking world-leading research in direct collaboration with communities, NGOs and governments. By outcomes, we mean applying our work to create a significant positive change for people.

In turn, these outcomes cascade into other settings and inform future research. 

 

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Empowering women through Disaster Risk Reduction: a project to deliver outcomes

The project focused on how to include women in decision-making processes, listening to their assessments of priority challenges. The work included education and training activities but also learning through delivering the projects themselves (including managing small budgets).

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Eleftheria Vavadaki and Bikram Rana consider where the local community was flooded.

Parametric Insurance targeting economically poor flood vulnerable farmers

A collaborative three-year PhD research project exploring parametric index-based insurance as a possible risk transfer mechanism in Nepal for very poor farmers in flood prone areas of the Lower Karnali River basin in Nepal, built on existing local partnerships

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Rocky Roads in Nepal, with rock partially covering the road

Action on Natural Disasters (AND) PhD - Earthquake-induced Landslides in Nepal

Landslides are a perennial hazard in Nepal that pose a particular challenge to post-earthquake disaster response. The cohort comprised 4 PhD research projects, all of which sought to learn from the 2015 earthquakes and build upon ongoing and existing long-term research and collaborations in Nepal.

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