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Working with local partners – and nature – for flood resilience
Building on the successful cooperation between the Red Cross of Montenegro and the municipality of Golubovci on the repair and construction of a flood protection wall in Ponari community, the two decided to team up again for a more ambitious green and grey infrastructure project in Kurilo and Bistrice. Written …
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Read MoreSuccessful Completion of Small Grants II: Youth Trailblaze Urban Climate Action in Asia Pacific
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2021 the Asia Pacific Urban Community Resilience Hub launched the 2nd Urban Community Resilience Small Grants,...
Leaders and Data Driven Decision Making: Why it Matters
The importance of data in informing sound decision making for management and key stakeholders cannot be over emphasized especially in this period and ...
The IFRC Alert Hub Initiative Spurs Innovation for Effective Emergency Alerting
An amazing surge of innovations in emergency alerting is happening now to ensure accurate and actionable emergency alerts reach communities around the...
Nepal’s Municipal Disaster Risk Governance Assessment Tool: a case study on strengthening disaster risk management
Nepal Red Cross Society volunteers and local people strengthen a breached embankment to prevent floodwater from entering their settlement. Photo by Ne...
Climate change and community flood resilience in Tabasco, Mexico
For the past two years, the Mexican Red Cross and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre have collaborated closely at the intersection of climate c...
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Research
Anticipatory action to manage climate risks: Lessons from the Red Cross Red Crescent in Southern Africa, Bangladesh, and beyond
Anticipatory action (AA) is a growing area of climate and disaster risk management that emphasizes the use of climate services and risk analyses to predict where crises might strike and enable action to prevent or mitigate impacts before disasters occur. Based on interviews with stakeholders involve... Read More
Research
Heatwaves-Driven Human Morbidity and Mortality over Selected Counties in Kenya
This research is carried out by Bethwel Mutai 1 with funding support from the Global Disaster Preparedness Center. Although heat-related disasters have risen worldwide, lack of reliable and consistent climate datasets and standard detection metrics in Africa can easily downplay not only the existenc... Read More
Guidance material, Training material
IFRC Tech-Bio Hazards Roadmap – Workplan – Background
IFRC Tech-Bio Hazards Roadmap – Workplan – Background Read More
Case Study
Warnings in Violence and Conflict: Coproducing warnings with and for those most at risk
People living in places affected by violence disproportionately experience and are impacted by natural hazard-related disasters, yet they are often left without adequate early warning and response systems. Warnings are known to be best developed and implemented through people-centered approaches lik... Read More
Research
Towards Liveable Cities: Extreme Heat Distribution in South African Cities
This research is carried out by Timothy Chambers1 with funding support from the Global Disaster Preparedness Center. Extreme temperatures have severe impacts on human health. In a climate that is projected to significantly warm in future, these impacts become exacerbated. Southern Africa in partic... Read More
Research
Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice & Risk Perceptions Regarding Heatwave Among Outdoor Workers in Nepal
This research is carried out by Anjali Joshi1, Sabina Marasini1, Sudim Sharma2, Lava Timsina3, Biraj Man Karmacharya1 with funding support from the Global Disaster Preparedness Center. The annual rise in global temperature has led to the evident impacts on lives of the most vulnerable population e... Read More
Case Study
CLIMATE CHANGE LATIN-AMERICA: IMPACTS ON VIOLENCE AFFECTED COMMUNITIES AND ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
The underlying question in this briefing note is: How does climate change translate to communities heavily affected by organized armed violence? Is it possible to find correlations between climate change and organized criminal gangs’ ability to exert control? And if so, does this have implications... Read More
Awareness material
Warning Briefing Note Series
UCL Warning Research Center, supported by the Global Disaster Preparedness Center/IFRC and in collaboration with the Anticipation Hub, launches the ‘Warning Briefing Note Series’ that addresses key aspects of warnings, covering state-of-the-art, key issues, examples, resources and recommendation... Read More