Delivering the Promise of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts (FCAC): A Case Study of the NGO GOAL's Response to the Syria Conflict.

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) has helped to reduce global disaster risk, but there has been a lack of progress in disaster risk reduction (DRR) for people living in fragile and conflict affected contexts (FCAC). Given the mounting evidence that DRR cannot be implemented through conventional approaches in FCAC, serious efforts must be made to understand how to meet SFDRR's goals. This paper offers a case study of international non-governmental organization GOAL's programming that responds to the protracted crisis in Syria, with critical discussion on SFDRR and how to adapt humanitarian relief and disaster resilience.

Practitioner Approaches to Measuring Community Resilience: The Analysis of the Resilience of Communities to Disasters Toolkit.

To be useful for operational programs, measures of resilience must not just be valid, but be easy to use and useful. Unfortunately, while resilience measurement techniques have progressed tremendously over the past decade, most progress has been on improving validity rather than utility and ease of use. In this article we present a new tool for measuring community resilience that incorporates issues of utility and ease of use, the Analysis of Resilience of Communities to Disasters (ARC-D) toolkit. The toolkit was developed over the course of ten years by the international humanitarian and development organization GOAL to enable aid organizations to measure community resilience in a way that supports resilience building interventions. It offers an approach to measurement that is cognizant of the resilience policy landscape, including the Sendai Framework, approaches to data collection and measurement uses relevant to aid agencies. We first present the core tenants of community resilience measurement before describing the toolkit, which consists of 30 measures, a guidebook, and an online platform. To illustrate its use, we a case study of a resilience building program in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. By developing one of the first resilience toolkits focused beyond validity and providing a description of how such an assessment works, this article has implications for resilience researchers and practitioners.

An 11-country study to benchmark the implementation of recommended nutrition policies by national governments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index, 2015-2018.

The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) aims to assess the extent of implementation of recommended food environment policies by governments compared with international best practices and prioritize actions to fill implementation gaps. The Food-EPI was applied in 11 countries across six regions (2015-2018). National public health nutrition panels (n = 11-101 experts) rated the extent of implementation of 47 policy and infrastructure support good practice indicators by their government(s) against best practices, using an evidence document verified by government officials. Experts identified and prioritized actions to address implementation gaps. The proportion of indicators at "very low if any," "low," "medium," and "high" implementation, overall Food-EPI scores, and priority action areas were compared across countries. Inter-rater reliability was good (GwetAC2 = 0.6-0.8). Chile had the highest proportion of policies (13%) rated at "high" implementation, while Guatemala had the highest proportion of policies (83%) rated at "very low if any" implementation. The overall Food-EPI score was "medium" for Australia, England, Chile, and Singapore, while "very low if any" for Guatemala. Policy areas most frequently prioritized included taxes on unhealthy foods, restricting unhealthy food promotion and front-of-pack labelling. The Food-EPI was found to be a robust tool and process to benchmark governments' progress to create healthy food environments.

Relación entre el clima organizacional y la satisfacción laboral en una pequeña empresa del sector privado / Relation between organizational climate and job satisfaction in a small enterprise from private sector

Este estudio pretende valorar las relaciones entre el clima organizacional y la satisfacción laboral. Para ello se trabajó con un diseño correlacional y una muestra de 45 trabajadores de una pequeña empresa privada y se aplicó el Perfil Organizacional de Liker y la Escala de Satisfacción en el Trabajo de Warr, Cook y Wall. Los resultados indican que existen relaciones moderadas no significativas entre las variables, pero entre las dimensiones de flexibilidad y reconocimiento existen relaciones más fuertes y significativas con la satisfacción laboral. Además, se encontraron diferencias significativas entre los varones y las mujeres, entre el grado de instrucción y el área de trabajo del personal evaluado. Se concluye, por tanto, que el clima organizacional se relaciona con la satisfacción laboral de manera moderada.

This study pretends to value relations between organizational climate and job satisfaction. We work with a sample of 45 workers from a small private enterprise and we use Likert's Organizational Profile and the Scale of Job Satisfaction of Warr, Cook and Wall. Results indicate that there are moderate relations between our variables of study, but the dimensions of organizational climate such as flexibility and acknowledgement there are stronger correlations with job satisfaction. Moreover, we found significant differences among male and female workers, according to instruction level and the area of work in personnel who were evaluated. The conclusion is that organizational climate is related with job satisfaction moderately.