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Community members in Bangladesh take part in a disaster preparedness drill, carrying the Bangladesh Red Crescent and national flags through a flooded area. The exercise highlights the role of anticipatory action and pre-financing in enabling swift early response to coastal hazards.

Prefinanciación de la Acción Anticipatoria: Guía práctica para las sociedades nacionales

La acción anticipatoria está creciendo y consolidándose como un enfoque transversal en todo el Movimiento Internacional de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja. A medida que las Sociedades Nacionales desarrollan más Protocolos de Acción Temprana (PAT) y amplían sus programas de acción anticipatoria, contar con una estrategia de prefinanciación para la acción […]

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Voices of Preparedness: Anastasiia Kiseleva, Canadian Red Cross

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In this interview, Anastasiia Kiseleva, Disaster Risk Management Advisor at the Canadian Red Cross, shares how her National Society supports disaster preparedness around the world, including a recent, focused initiative with the Bangladesh Red Crescent to enhance its Emergency Operations Center through improved information management and decision-making tools. How does the Canadian Red Cross support

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Voices of Preparedness: Rebecca Scheurer, Global Lead for Disaster Preparedness, American Red Cross

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In this interview, Rebecca Scheurer, Global Lead for Disaster Preparedness at the American Red Cross, shares how the organization promotes preparedness at both local and global levels to raise awareness of climate-related risks—with a particular focus on extreme heat, a growing “silent killer” in a warming world. How is the American Red Cross promoting preparedness

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Protecting jobs and employment during disasters: lessons from employment insurance system in Japan

This World Bank discussion paper examines how Japan uses its employment insurance system to protect jobs and support workers during disasters, offering a detailed case for designing adaptive social protection that goes beyond traditional emergency social assistance. Set against the backdrop of disasters becoming more frequent and severe — and disproportionately harming the poor and

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Public warning and evacuation experiences during recent GLOF events (2019 and 2023) and recommendations for future preparedness: Insights from Lunana, Bhutan

This peer-reviewed study offers the first comprehensive documentation of how a remote Himalayan community experienced warning dissemination and evacuation during recent glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). Focusing on Lunana in Bhutan — one of the world’s most at-risk basins, surrounded by dangerous glacial lakes and a nine-day walk from the nearest road — the authors

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Community Heat Risk Perception Studies: Honduras, Indonesia, and Tanzania

This collection brings together four community-level research studies examining how urban populations perceive, experience, and respond to extreme heat. Published in late 2025, the studies were conducted as part of the Coastal City Resilience and Extreme Heat Action Project (CoCHAP) — a joint initiative supported by National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the American

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Evidence-Based Communication Strategies for Protecting Communities from Extreme Heat

This series of guidance notes presents evidence-based communication strategies for protecting vulnerable communities from extreme heat, drawing on heat risk perception surveys conducted across five cities: Choluteca and San Lorenzo (Honduras), Surabaya and Medan (Indonesia), and Tanga and Unguja (Tanzania). Across all contexts, surveys consistently identify older adults, outdoor workers, pregnant women, people with pre-existing

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Edible Rooftop Gardens: A Community and Nature-based Climate Resilience Building Strategy

Authors and Collaborators: Chandan Sarangi Parama Roy Gourav Suthar Akshaya Ayyangar Ramachandran A. Summary: Extreme heat is an escalating climate risk in Indian cities, disproportionately affecting socio-economically vulnerable populations, especially children who spend long hours in public schools and Anganwadi’s. Nature-based solutions such as edible rooftop gardens offer a promising, low-cost strategy for localised cooling

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Exploring community-based stewardship of nature-based solutions (NbS) in upgraded informal settlements: the case of Bangkok, Thailand

Authors and Collaborators: Hanna Akila B. Abdul Rauf, Heriot Watt University Alexander van der Jagt, Heriot Watt University Supreeya Wungpatcharapon, Kasetsart University Sani Limthongsakul, Kasetsart University Harry Smith, Heriot Watt University Summary: Community gardens and canal revegetation are common urban nature-based solutions (NbS) initiated in informal settlements for climate resilience. Engaging with and tending to

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Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Risks: Assessing Local Engagement, Implementation and Scalability in Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal

Authors and Collaborators: Ravi Mohan Tiwari, Kathmandu Institute of Applied Sciences Susma Giri, Kathmandu Institute of Applied Sciences Jagannath Adhikari, Birendra Multiple Campus Summary: As climate change accelerates, urban areas are increasingly exposed to risks such as flooding, heat stress, and environmental degradation, which disproportionately affect marginalized communities. Nature-based Solutions (NbS), including urban forests, wetlands,

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