“Though landslides, floods and epidemics occur annually right across Nepal, this study focuses on just nine of the nation’s 75 districts: six in the Far- and Mid-West and three in the Eastern development regions. It further narrowed its focus to the 2008 flood of the Koshi River, the 2009 flash floods in Kailali and Kanchanpur […]
Website outlining the innovative learning initiatives of the IFRC including the Learning Platform and RedTalks. Red Cross Red Crescent Learning Network website http://www.ifrcmedia.org/blog/red-cross-red-crescent-learning/
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Overview of Indonesia’s Disaster Risk Context in terms of its Hazards Profile and a Risk Analysis PMI’s Auxiliary Function and Capacity in the Implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Gathered from IFRC South-East Asia’s Road to Resilience site. Palang Merah Indonesia Baseline Assessment 2009 https://www.dropbox.com/s/tiojc80p87ocrei/Draft_Final_Baseline_Assessment_DRR_2010_PMI.pdf
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The capacity assessment mission for Turkey was implemented at the request of the regional project for South – East Europe (SEE) and Turkey on Disaster Risk Management (DRM). The purpose of the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) capacity assessment is to identify capacity gaps related to risk reduction, understand desired capacities and propose recommendations on how
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The combination of rapid urbanization and population growth, alongside the proliferation of short message service (SMS) and internet based technology, making it possible for communities to publicize how they are being affected by our actions have changedthe humanitarian landscape. Though information and mobile phone technology had been growing in the years before 2010, the Haiti
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The need to analyse and prepare for peoples’ vulnerability to natural hazards could be rooted in the sustainable livelihoods (SL) approach, and in development work which aims to reduce the elements of vulnerability that are a result of poverty. As such, vulnerability analysis (VA) may help to bring humanitarian work in line with [development organizations’]
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