Activities

With RCRC national societies and their partners serving as its primary target audience, the GDPC provides services in three main areas — Knowledge Management, Research and Technical Assistance — in order to build national and community level preparedness. Below you can browse through a selection of our core programs and projects, past and present.

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Reaching the Last Mile: Evidence and Practice for Inclusive Early Warning Systems

About the series Early warning systems have expanded significantly in recent years, yet coverage alone does not guarantee protection. Formal coverage does not ensure reach, and even where systems exist, warnings may not be perceived, understood, or acted upon. Barriers related to identity, ability, ...

Strengthening Anticipatory Action Evidence Workshop

Building MEL capacity across the Red Cross Red Crescent network to generate and use evidence from anticipatory action programs. The American Red Cross, in partnership with the RCRC Climate Centre, is hosting Strengthening Anticipatory Action Evidence workshop, taking place in Nagarkot, Nepal from 4-...

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Ethics in Technology

Addressing Humanitarian Accountability Within Humanitarian Tech The humanitarian field is making strides to bring greater accountability to humanitarian principles in tech. Largely, with a focus on “ethics,” we have gained traction with creators of humanitarian information & comm...

WhatNow Service: Early Action Tool

WhatNow Service, developed by the Red Cross and Red Crescent’s Global Disaster Preparedness Center, in partnership with Google, is designed to increase the speed and dissemination of disaster preparedness and risk reduction messages. It is founded on IFRC’s Public Awareness and Publi...

Coalition-building in Coastal Cities

Description The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) in collaboration with the IFRC and the American Red Cross has received an award from USAID/OFDA to design and test a set of tools and services to assist Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) National Societies and their partners to create effective ...

GDPC Research Activities

Advancing Disaster Preparedness through Research and Scientific Collaboration The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is committed to strengthening the knowledge base for disaster preparedness programming through research. We collaborate with universities, research institutions, and practitio...

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