This technical guidance highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic may undermine the resilience of communities and individuals affected by the primary and secondary effects of a hazard, as well as how a particular hazard may seriously worsen the conditions of people affected by COVID-19. It, therefore, calls for a fully integrated approach whereby these ‘compounding effects’ […]
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Cash transfer programming: Guidelines for mainstreaming and preparedness.
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The Cash Help Desk is a service available for all staff and volunteers of National Societies, the IFRC Secretariat, and the ICRC who might want to access remote technical advice on the use of cash assistance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.
This report published by the UNISDR gives an excellent analysis of economic lossess due to disasters. Between 1998 and 2017 climate-related and geophysical disasters killed 1.3 million people and left a further 4.4 billion injured, homeless, displaced or in need of emergency assistance. While the majority of fatalities were due to geophysical events, mostly earthquakes
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After a massive influx of refugees from Myanmar into Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, an Environmental Field Advisor (EFA) has been deployed to help cope with the environmental impact and ensure emergency response activities do not further exacerbate damage to the area. The deployment comes as part of the IFRC’s Green Response Initiative, which seeks to
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The 2018 World Disasters Report, titled “Leaving millions NO-ONE behind: The international humanitarian sector must do more to respond to the needs of the world’s most vulnerable people” explores how different people are left behind in humanitarian response, and why. It highlights the humanitarian impacts of crises, in particular natural hazards, including those linked to climate change, but
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Individuals and organizations responding to humanitarian crises recognize the need to improve urban emergency response and preparedness – including the need to devise better methods for assessing vulnerability within urban populations. This systematic review represents the first ever attempt to systematically search, sort and synthesize the existing evidence in order to consolidate findings on the tools,
A five year study that Australian Red Cross has been partnering in, with the University of Melbourne, has been finalised. The study examined the long term effects of health effects of the impacts of the bushfires,a nd had over 1000 participants Five years after the event, 21% of respondents were suffering from post traumatic stress. The
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Children, young people and flooding: Recovery and resilience Research with flood-affected children reveals serious impacts on well-being but also a desire to take on a role in flood risk management. Lancaster University researchers found that factors impacting on children’s well-being include: loss of valued personal and family possessions, friendship networks, familiar spaces, education; experience of
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This publication examines key issues confronting the private sector in: disaster recovery financing; what roles private-sector entities have played; and where there has been successful integration or leadership of these organizations. The study also briefly explores challenges that the private sector faces, with particular attention to issues of information use and application, coordination in response