DRFF in the News
Mar 08
2023
Women hold the power to create, nurture, and transform. Yet, mere survival is what they are often left fighting for, especially following a natural disaster. The statistics are bleak. Eighty percent of people who are displaced by climate change are women. Women are also 80% less likely than men to own a mobile phone and 20% less likely to use the Internet on a mobile phone. Which, quite simply, means that a woman is significantly likelier to be affected by a disaster and is unlikely to have... Keep reading
Mar 07
2023
Photo Credit: UNOCHA/Ali Haj Suleiman Rescue workers look for survivors in a building in Samada, Syria destroyed by the February 6 earthquake.
ANKARA, February 27, 2023— The two very large earthquakes of February 6 caused an estimated $34.2 billion in direct physical damages in Türkiye, the equivalent of 4% of the country’s 2021 GDP, according to a World Bank rapid damage assessment report released today. The report also acknowledges that recovery and reconstruction costs will be much larger, potentially twice as large, and that GDP losses associated to economic disruptions will also add to the cost of the earthquakes. Continued... Keep reading
Feb 22
2023
There is a growing trend that climate shocks are increasing in frequency and intensity due to climate change. Djibouti, situated in the disaster-prone Horn of Africa, is highly vulnerable to droughts, floods, heatwaves, and earthquakes. The population suffers from these shocks, with 33 percent of the population living in high hazard risk zones, and the rest of the country also suffering as 35 percent of the economy is chronically vulnerable to floods and droughts [1] . To increase Djibouti’s... Keep reading