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Upskilling for Resilience: A Guide to Free Online Disaster Preparedness Training

As disasters continue to challenge communities worldwide, it is crucial for disaster management practitioners to stay up-to-date with the latest knowledge, training, and skills to help keep communities safer during these crises. To aid in the professional development of this critical workforce, the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) has curated a list of free online […]

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Humanitarian Service Points in Action: A global review

Along some of the world’s toughest migration routes, Humanitarian Service Points provide a safe space for migrants and displaced people, giving them access to vital services that might otherwise be unreachable. This report provides numerous concrete examples of Humanitarian Service Points in operation along migration routes around the world and it explains why they are

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Young, lawless and promising – stories about finding the way out of youth crime

The purpose of the report “Young, lawless and promising” is to strengthen knowledge about how we as a society can better prevent in general and prevent relapse into crime for youth who have been involved in youth crime. The Red Cross has conducted in-depth interviews with 13 people aged 18 to 36 who in their

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Report: The Future of Volunteers in Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response

Climate change, rural to urban migration, an aging population, municipal task shifting, and changes in the way people volunteer – many forces will affect the risk landscape local disaster preparedness and emergency response actors will have to confront in the decades to come. What do we in the Red Cross have to be aware of

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Communicating storm surge risks via risk communication websites: a novel approach

Websites related to storm surge risks mostly follow an instructive approach, often combining flood risk maps with historical information on floods, and instructions on how to behave in case of an approaching emergency, such as a dike break. Sometimes, these websites are enriched with additional media materials (photos in particular). However, while accurately representing flood

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Nature-based Solution for River basin and Coastal Risk Resilience Community

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The Nature-based Solution for River basin and Coastal Risk Resilience Community program is applied harmoniously within the framework of Integrated Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction, encouraging the creation of communities that are ready to act when Community Ready-to-Act (CoRtA) disaster risks occur, especially in river and coastal border areas. Physical structural efforts have been carried out

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Data sharing for Disaster Risk Reduction in different contexts

1. Data Ecosystems and Disaster Risk Reduction in Cross-border Regions: Visioning from 2020 Roya Valley Flood Disaster. 2. The Impact of conflicts on Data Sharing for Disaster Risk Reduction French Red Cross – Mercedes Aguerre – Mercedes.aguerre@croix-rouge.fr Université Paris-Dauphine PSL Anouck Adrot Anouck.adrot@dauphine.psl.eu          

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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 by Jonathan Ulrich and Nataša

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NATECH

Technological Emergencies triggered by natural hazards (so called NATECH Events) become also more relevant with the increase of the frequency and strength of natural and climate related hazards. Different material from various organisations address the aspects of NATECH and provide guidance. Available in several languages.

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