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Standard Operating Procedures: Early Action to El Niño/La Niña Episodes

These inter-agency Standard Operating Procedures set out how humanitarian and development actors should act ahead of El Niño and La Niña episodes rather than waiting for impacts to materialize. Endorsed by IASC Principals, they establish a common, phased framework for translating ENSO forecasts into concrete early action at global, regional, and country level. The SOPs […]

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Tindakan Antisipatif Pembiayaan Pendahuluan: Panduan Praktis bagi Perhimpunan Nasional

Tindakan antisipatif semakin berkembang dan semakin diintegrasikan di seluruh Gerakan Palang Merah dan Bulan Sabit Merah. Seiring dengan penambahan lebih banyak Early Action Protocols (EAP) oleh Perhimpunan Nasional dan peningkatan skala program Tindakan Antisipatif mereka, pengembangan strategi Pembiayaan Pendahuluan untuk Tindakan Antisipatif menjadi sangat penting untuk memastikan pelaksanaan yang tepat waktu dan efektif. Jangka waktu

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Green Response in Emergencies: A Practical Process Guide

This process guide helps National Societies turn Climate and Environment commitments into practical action. Making emergency response more environmentally sustainable isn’t easy – there are lots of systems, decisions, and people involved, and it requires both internal buy-in and community input. The guide offers a simple, structured way to start integrating climate-smart and environmentally friendly

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Community members in Bangladesh take part in a disaster preparedness drill, carrying the Bangladesh Red Crescent and national flags through a flooded area. The exercise highlights the role of anticipatory action and pre-financing in enabling swift early response to coastal hazards.

Préfinancement de l’Action anticipée: Guide pratique pour les Sociétés nationales

L’action anticipée se développe rapidement et s’intègre progressivement dans les pratiques du Mouvement international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge. À mesure que les Sociétés nationales élaborent davantage de Protocoles d’action précoce (PAP) et renforcent leurs programmes d’action anticipée, l’élaboration d’une stratégie de préfinancement est essentielle pour garantir une mise en œuvre rapide et efficace.

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Community members in Bangladesh take part in a disaster preparedness drill, carrying the Bangladesh Red Crescent and national flags through a flooded area. The exercise highlights the role of anticipatory action and pre-financing in enabling swift early response to coastal hazards.

Prefinanciación de la Acción Anticipatoria: Guía práctica para las sociedades nacionales

La acción anticipatoria está creciendo y consolidándose como un enfoque transversal en todo el Movimiento Internacional de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja. A medida que las Sociedades Nacionales desarrollan más Protocolos de Acción Temprana (PAT) y amplían sus programas de acción anticipatoria, contar con una estrategia de prefinanciación para la acción

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Knowing what the weather will do: A guide for practitioners on impact-based early warning

This guide introduces a novel framework and step-by-step methodology for developing impact-based early warning (IbEW) systems that move beyond forecasting “what the weather will be” to anticipating “what the weather will do” — the actual impacts of hazards on people, livelihoods, and assets. Aimed at governmental and non-governmental organizations engaged in early warning, disaster risk

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Heat in cities: Impacts of heatwaves and measures to mitigate risk

In a changing climate, many cities are experiencing higher temperatures and more frequent and severe heatwaves. The following six infographics by the USAID-funded Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments (ATLAS) project highlight key messages about heatwaves in cities, including the impacts of heatwaves and vulnerability to heat, as well as steps cities can take to understand

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Evidence-Based Communication Strategies for Protecting Communities from Extreme Heat

This series of guidance notes presents evidence-based communication strategies for protecting vulnerable communities from extreme heat, drawing on heat risk perception surveys conducted across five cities: Choluteca and San Lorenzo (Honduras), Surabaya and Medan (Indonesia), and Tanga and Unguja (Tanzania). Across all contexts, surveys consistently identify older adults, outdoor workers, pregnant women, people with pre-existing

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Urban Guide: Road Map to Community Resilience via Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment

Urban considerations for operationalizing the Framework for Community Resilience through the Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (EVCA) This guide supports National Societies to adapt the Roadmap to Community Resilience via EVCA (R2R via EVCA v2) for urban contexts. Developed by IFRC in collaboration with the German Red Cross, it complements the existing EVCA toolbox by

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Support tool: Checklist for Moving Savings Group Digital criteria

This criteria checklist is a support tool developed by the Livelihoods and Resilience Sector Working Group, with support from U-Learn. It’s specifically designed to support actors with the Uganda refugee response – for a more general tool please see the Digital Savings Group Toolkit: Digital Preparedness Checklist – produced by the DSG Hub. Before making a decision

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