23 Dec 2013
Many national climate change adaptation plans consider the need to plan over various timescales and acknowledge the essential role of local communities in addressing the changing risks. The Minimum Standards for local climate‐smart disaster risk...
Tags: Guidance material, Behavior Change and Disaster Preparedness, Climate Change Adaptation, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Urban Risk Reduction
28 May 2020
Local actors,3 including civil society organisations, government, and the private sector, as well as communities themselves (including displaced communities), are critical in every humanitarian operation, and even more so in the current context that ...
Tags: Guidance material, Communicable Disease
02 Dec 2020
This WHO document, is an update of the guidance published on 5 June 2020, includes new scientific evidence relevant to the use of masks for reducing the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and practical considerations
Tags: Guidance material, COVID-19 (Coronavirus)