Sep 20 2014
Perspective
In Jakarta, a sprawling megacity of 14 million people, there is growing concern over the threat of dengue fever. Climate change is altering rainfall and temperature patterns. When combined with …
Sep 19 2014
Perspective
Last month, we announced the launch of the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), a collaboration between The Rockefeller Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that will work …
Sep 19 2014
Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and The Rockefeller Foundation announced a $50 million commitment by the Swedish government to the Global Resilience Partnership and the launch …
Sep 19 2014
Speeches
Good morning. This morning, like many of you, I took a stroll through the innovation marketplace. It struck me that, to understand just how far we've come in terms of the …
Sep 17 2014
The City Resilience Framework provides a lens through which the complexity of cities and the drivers that contribute to a city’s resilience can be understood. The 12 capacities in the 100RC …
Climate
Sep 17 2014
Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro today launched a $1 billion National Disaster Resilience Competition. He was joined by Dr. Judith Rodin, president of The …
Sep 16 2014
Press Releases
NEW YORK—Earlier this month, a team of infectious disease experts led by Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS), together with the Southern Africa Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS), …
Sep 12 2014
Perspective
"Some of the poorest regions in the world are the ones that are going to suffer the most. It is going to become a problem for the whole global community."
In …
Sep 12 2014
Perspective
Over the last few years, an array of climate-related disasters around the world have resulted in massive human and economic costs, with huge loss of lives and hundreds-of-billions of dollars …
Sep 11 2014
Perspective
A version of this post also appeared on The HUDdle. "Rebuild by Design has set a new standard for large-scale disaster response and infrastructure projects."
Shortly after Hurricane Sandy struck the Northeast, …