CAP Editor presents a link to CAP alert message templates in HTML that provide text suggestions for the “headline”, “description” and “instruction” elements of a CAP alert. These CAP alert message templates address about 20 common alerting situations. The templates are in English, Dutch, French, Papiamento, and Spanish.
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This document annotates a screen-by-screen preview of the CAP Editor freeware, as it would be seen by a person authenticated in the role of “composer” or “approver”.
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This document provides an example template for the particular phrases (about 1,000 words total) that must be translated to enable the CAP Editor to customize its user interface. Translations to the new language are indicated by replacing the entries in the “French” column (noting that the words highlighted in yellow must remain in English). Once
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Led by the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and supported by the German Red Cross, the Bangladesh FbF project is at the forefront of experience with FbF activation and funding delivery in the Asia-Pacific region. This case study examines the effectiveness of distributing unconditional cash grants to affected people as an early action measure in the
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The Strengthening Urban Resilience and Engagement (SURE) program developed a Participatory Campaign Planning (PCP) process to improve disaster messaging and increase awareness of disaster risks and mitigation measures among vulnerable groups in Nepal. The project included a series of interactive workshops to determine which messages and means of communicating would most effectively reach each of
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Between 2014 and 2016, Red Cross National Societies worked with communities, governments, and regional organizations to develop and implement an “early warning early action” approach in eight island nations in the Pacific. The Finnish-Pacific (or FINPAC) project brought together relevant stakeholders at the regional, national, island, community, and household levels to develop community early warning
The 2018 CAP Implementation Workshop was held 31 October – 1 November, in Hong Kong, China. The Workshop was hosted by Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) and co-sponsored by the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the OASIS standards organization, and the World
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The Global Disaster Preparedness Center, in partnership with Google, has developed the WhatNow Message Portal to increase the speed and dissemination of disaster preparedness and risk reduction messages. Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies can adapt multi-hazard key action messages to their country context. Find more information on the one-pager, toolkit page, or activity page.
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Half of Indonesia’s population of approximately 141 million people lives on the island of Java, home to several river systems as the Citarum river and the Bengawan Solo. Due to changing climate and environmental conditions, these river systems are prone to flooding. The Indonesian Red Cross (Palang Merah Indonesia, PMI), the International Federation of Red
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Floods affect more people globally than any other type of natural hazard and they cause some of the largest economic, social and humanitarian losses. In 2013, Zurich Insurance, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Practical Action, Wharton Risk Management, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) formed the Flood
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