This report provides guidelines that citizens may help in the optimal use of social media during crisis situations. Tips and tricks are formulated for the different roles that citizens can take. Tips and tricks for citizens: How to use new media during crisis situations? http://www.cosmic-project.eu/sites/default/files/deliverables/D6.1.pdf
Description: This chapter discusses the importance of improving water, sanitation, vector control and hygiene in emergency settings. Learning objectives To explain the relationship between the environment and water, sanitation and hygiene related diseases; To present standards and key indicators related water supply, sanitation and hygiene in emergencies; To provide basic information about control measures for
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Guia para seguridad en caso de Tsunamis. This document is a Tsunami Safety Checklist that gives you basic information on what to do and what supplies you need in case a tsunami occurs.
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This document is a Winter Weather Safety Checklist that gives you basic information on what to do and what supplies you need in case winter weather and/or cold waves occur.
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Emergency procedures and public information regarding extreme cold weather compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These guidelines have been developed for use in the United States, but may be relevant in other areas with similar climates. This resource includes preparing your home and vehicle, recognition
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Prepare, warn, mitigate, recover, live. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) world is “multi-sectoral” and part of a broad and long-standing drive for safer and more resilient communities. DRR is at the core of most National Societies’ work to address the specific vulnerabilities to which communities are exposed. This document
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Based on the results of a study and the low level of risk awareness among people hit by the 1999 quakes, the Bogazici University developed a non-structural mitigation (NSM) education programme, with support from the Turkish Red Crescent Society (TRCS), American Red Cross (ARC). The programme aims to promote a nationwide culture of mitigation, by
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The Better Programming Initiative (BPI) is an initiative born of the conviction that in communities affected by violence, well-planned aid programming with alternative and creative implementation options can support local capacities for recovery and reconciliation. It was recognised by trained field delegates and NS staff that this tool can also be used in any contexts
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The Asia Pacific zone covers 45 countries and 57% of all the disasters in the Asia Pacific are hydro-metrological in nature. Increasing climate risk threatens hard-earned development gains. A strategy for dealing with this is to better understand and pre-empt climate related hazards through systematic use of climate information at different time scales. This can
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This leaflet presents key messages and facts on hunger in the context of World Food Day in 2010. It also describes the links between hunger and climate change and risks for food security in a changing climate. Finally, the leaflet details what National Societies can do in the face of this reality. Published in 2010.
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