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Future of Urban for Red Cross Red Crescent
THIS THOUGHT PIECE IS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR IFRC SOLFERINO ACADEMYAuthors: Aynur Kadihasanoglu (lead author), Julie Arrighi and Ian O’Donnell For most of humanity, the future involves living in cities. According to UN in the coming decades 1.4 million people will be added to urban areas each week. Meanwhile, urban land area could triple globally from 2000 to 2030. Cities are also engines of national and global growth, accounting for 80 percent of global economic output. At the same time cities […]
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Empowering Communities, Influencing National Change: The Mexican Red Cross’ Approach to Flood Resilience
05 Jun 2024
Leading the way in strengthening community resilience, the Mexican Red Cross is at the forefront of impactful disaster preparedness and risk reduction...
Digital mapping the cities and communities to understand risks and vulnerabilities
20 Apr 2024
Around ending of December to January month as a way of complimenting the achievements of the previous City-Wide Risk Assessment Tanzania Red Cross Soc...
Beating the Heat: American Red Cross’ Heat Wave Preparedness in Texas
19 Apr 2024
2023 was officially named the hottest year on record, marked by scorching heat waves across the globe. With heat waves projected to increase in both f...
From Challenge to Change: The journey of Extreme Heat in Indonesia begins here
16 Apr 2024
In the tapestry of natural disasters woven into the landscape of Indonesia through Law No. 24 of 2007, there are no elements of extreme heat or heat w...
City-Wide Risk Assessment: A system Centric Approach for Building Resilient Coastal Cities in Bangladesh
16 Apr 2024
Bangladesh’s southern coast faces frequent extreme weather events like cyclones, tidal surges, tsunamis, floods. Climate-induced risks disrupt t...
Upskilling for Resilience: A Guide to Free Online Disaster Preparedness Training
07 Apr 2024
As disasters continue to challenge communities worldwide, it is crucial for disaster management practitioners to stay up-to-date with the latest knowl...
Data Ecosystems: Fostering Cross-Border Collaboration for Disaster Risk Reduction
25 Mar 2024
By Anouck Adrot (Université Paris-Dauphine PSL) and Mercedes Aguerre (Croix Rouge Française) Cross-border data sharing strengthens disaster prepared...
From Oyster Castles to Virtual Reality: Hong Kong Red Cross’ Innovative Approach to Building Resilience
12 Mar 2024
At the forefront of building resilient communities, the Hong Kong Red Cross (Branch of Red Cross Society of China) is leading exciting disaster prepar...
Navigating the “dog days:” Experience of the Mexican Red Cross during 2023 heatwaves
23 Feb 2024
2023 was officially named the hottest year on record, marked by scorching heat waves across the globe. With heat waves projected to increase in both f...
Use of AI in health emergencies: Insights from a simulated telephone survey
07 Feb 2024
In public health emergencies, timely and accurate information is crucial for effective response strategies. My experiment looks at how artificial inte...
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Coastal cities, communities and climate change: Charting a resilient course
Coastal cities, communities and climate change: Charting a resilient course Coastal Cities Dialog (CCD), organised with support from the IFRC, RCRC Climate Centre and ICLEI (a leading network of cities). CCD took place as part of the ICLEI World Congress (WC) 2024 in São Paulo, Brazil 18-21 June 20... Read More
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World Risk Poll 2024 Report: Resilience in a Changing World
This is the release of the second edition of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll Resilience Index. This resource offers deep insights into the resilience and vulnerabilities of countries and communities globally, especially regarding climate change-related disasters and other shock... Read More
Guidance material
Reporting on Heatwaves and the Health Impacts of Heat
Media representations of heatwaves and climate change plays an important role in how the public thinks about, perceives, prepares for and acts on risks to their health, and how decision and policy makers address the problem. This brief was developed by the Global Heat Health Information Network and ... Read More
Case Study
Cyclone Mocha Case Study
Cyclone Mocha, a Category 5 storm, made landfall in Myanmar on May 14, 2023, causing significant damage in coastal areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar. Despite the challenges, Bangladesh’s disaster management efforts, led by the Cyclone Preparedness Programme, successfully evacuated over 700,000 p... Read More
Coastal Hazards in Cities Fact Sheets
Coastal Hazards in Cities Fact Sheet #1 Flooding 2024.06.04 Coastal Hazards in Cities Fact Sheet #2 Tropical Storms 2024.06.04 Coastal Hazards in Cities Fact Sheet #3 Landslides 2024.06.04 Read More
Thriving: Making Cities Green, Resilient, and Inclusive in a Changing Climate
This is a summary of the recent report issued by the World Bank. You can download the full report here. Why coastal cities in low- and middle-income countries are facing greater threats from the climate change: Climate change is exposing cities to increasingly frequent extreme weather events. Global... Read More
Hand fan with key messages
Since 2018, the Philippine Red Cross, as part of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, has worked to increase flood resilience in vulnerable communities in rural and urban contexts of the Philippines. Following the application of the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) tool, develope... Read More
Postcards for floods resilience in the Philippines
Since 2018, the Philippine Red Cross, as part of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, has worked to increase flood resilience in vulnerable communities in rural and urban contexts of the Philippines. In order to increase visibility and awareness of the Flood Resilience Alliance in the Philippines, ... Read More
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