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From Nepal’s sensor networks to Bolivia’s radio broadcasts, people on the frontlines of the climate crisis are writing the future of disaster preparedness.

Community based early warning systems are widely used to extend the coverage provided at a national level. However, in low to middle income countries, budgets are often limited, which has led to the search for low-cost alternatives employing some of the latest technologies.

Hundreds of people in communities that work with Practical Action in the Amazonas region of Bolivia have lost crops and their livelihoods in devastating floods. Heavy rains throughout March have raised rivers to dangerous levels, inundating remote Tacana communities living in the area.

Thousands of Indigenous people in Bolivia will integrate their traditional knowledge into formal disaster risk management plans in the face of increasing climate threats.

The escalating threats posed by extreme heat and increasingly destructive wildfires and storms has led an alliance funded by the Z Zurich Foundation to significantly expand its work.

Practical Action staff in Asia and across the world are hard at work helping communities at risk of flooding make vital preparations ahead of the rainy season.

As we celebrate 10 years of the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance, we talk with David Nash, Head of Adapting to Climate Change at Z Zurich Foundation about the Alliance’s successes so far, and Practical Action’s role in it.

For people living in Thies Nord, Senegal, the rains mean worry. This is a poor area, and the homes haven’t been built to cope with the increasing threat of floods.

Thousands of people on the frontline of the climate crisis in West Africa are set to benefit from a £200,000 grant awarded to improve and strengthen the resilience of the communities in Senegal and Niger.