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What Makes A Community Disaster Ready? A Meta-Evaluation.

0Reports Reviewed 0Organizations Covered Over the course of 2019-2020, the American Red Cross commissioned a meta‑evaluation to explore what makes a community disaster-ready. This meta-evaluation examines 24 program or project evaluations, half of which were of American Red Cross community disaster preparedness programs, and half of the programs implemented by external actors. The aim of […]

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2019 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop

This page compiles the Report of the 2019 CAP Implementation Workshop together with the complete set of presentations delivered during the workshop, held on 17–18 October 2019 in Mexico City, Mexico. The workshop was hosted by the Mexico City Secretariat of Integral Risk Management and Civil Protection and co-sponsored by IAEM, IFRC, ITU, OASIS, and

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Common Alerting Protocol – Workshop 2017

Description The 2018 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop will be held in Hong Kong, hosted by Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) on October 31st. –  November 1st. A CAP Training Session will be all day on 30 October and a Filtered Alert Hub Workshop will be all day on 2 November. Both the CAP Implementation Workshop and CAP Training Session will be at the Tsim Sha

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2020 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Report

This page compiles the Report of the 2020 CAP Implementation Workshop together with the full set of presentations delivered during the event. The workshop took place 29–30 September 2020 (preceded by a CAP Training session on 28 September) and was hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as a virtual workshop delivered via Zoom Webinars.

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UGANDA RED CROSS SOCIETY DEVELOPING RISK DASHBOARD TO INFORM FORECAST-BASED FINANCING IN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND EARLY RESPONSE IN UGANDA

By Joel Kitutu Uganda Red Cross Society with the support from Netherlands Red Cross is implementing an Innovative Approaches in Response Preparedness (IARP) project for a period of 5 years (2018 – 2022). This will be achieved through three project components- establishment of Forecast-based financing (FbF) systems, supported by Data Preparedness and Cash Transfer Programming

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Common Alerting Protocol – Workshop 2019

The 2019 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop was held 17- 18 October, in Mexico City, Mexico. The workshop was hosted by the Secretariat of Integral Risk Management and Civil Protection 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 Meteorological

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IFRC Multi-Hazard App, WhatNow Service, & CAP Dissemination

This presentation was given by Jessica Robbins on 18 October, 2019, at the CAP Implementation Workshop in Mexico City, Mexico. This presentation introduces how the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) support multi-hazard early warning and public preparedness through digital tools and services that

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