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Concluding the ESI’S 2-Year Pilot Project in Mocoa, Colombia.

After a devastating landslide in 2017, DECCA (Drones for Equitable Climate Change Adaptation) aimed to develop a community-based planning and participatory risk management model with the development of technological tools for landslide monitoring.

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