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Green Response in Emergencies: A Practical Process Guide

This process guide helps National Societies turn Climate and Environment commitments into practical action. Making emergency response more environmentally sustainable isn’t easy – there are lots of systems, decisions, and people involved, and it requires both internal buy-in and community input. The guide offers a simple, structured way to start integrating climate-smart and environmentally friendly […]

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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.

Préfinancement de l’Action anticipée: Guide pratique pour les Sociétés nationales

L’action anticipée se développe rapidement et s’intègre progressivement dans les pratiques du Mouvement international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge. À mesure que les Sociétés nationales élaborent davantage de Protocoles d’action précoce (PAP) et renforcent leurs programmes d’action anticipée, l’élaboration d’une stratégie de préfinancement est essentielle pour garantir une mise en œuvre rapide et efficace.

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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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Understanding the global landscape of heat early warning systems

This report provides a global overview Heat Early Warning Systems, examining where they exist, how they are designed and operated, and their challenges and opportunities. It assesses the state of systems through the four core pillars of early warning systems and enabling components, drawing on peer-reviewed and non-academic evidence. The Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance is

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HELPify Bulgaria: Bridging the Digital Divide to Empower Vulnerable Communities in Rural Tsenovo — An Impact Story from the Localized Innovation Fund

This impact story describes HELPify (Humanitarian Empowerment & Local Partnerships), an initiative led by the Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC) with support from the Canadian Red Cross’s Local Innovation Fund (LIF) in the rural municipality of Tsenovo, Ruse region, carried out between July and December 2024. It responded to the exclusion of vulnerable populations: older adults,

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Contingency Planning as a Continuous Learning Process: Lessons from Canadian Red Cross Technical Support in Central Asia — A Case Study from Tajikistan

This case study documents how the Red Crescent Society of Tajikistan (RCST) strengthened its Disaster Risk Management (DRM) systems by developing a scenario-based, multi-hazard contingency plan and a new DRM Policy, with remote and in-country technical support from the Canadian Red Cross and IFRC under the ECHO Pilot Programmatic Partnership (PPP). Building on a completed

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Terms of Reference: International Services Strategy 2030 Consultant – American Red Cross

The American Red Cross International Services Division (ISD) is seeking an external consultant to lead the development of its ISD Strategy 2030 — a three-year strategic plan covering July 2027 through June 2030. The selected consultant will design and facilitate an inclusive, evidence-based process involving stakeholder interviews, surveys, and validation workshops, and will produce key

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Urban Heat Governance: Assessing Institutional Capacity to Manage Extreme Heat in Cities of the Global South

Extreme heat is the deadliest climate hazard — yet it remains the least governed. This policy brief, produced by the IFRC Climate Centre in partnership with University College London, presents findings from an analysis of heat-related urban governance across 83 coastal cities in the Global South. The central finding is stark: despite rapidly escalating heat

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Heat Threshold Reports: Honduras and Tanzania

Effective heat early warning systems depend on knowing what “extreme” actually means in a given place, and that definition varies significantly by local climate, population acclimatization, and urban context. This page brings together two technical reports produced by the IFRC Climate Centre that develop locally calibrated heat thresholds for cities in Honduras and Tanzania, providing

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