“I volunteer because I love learning lifesaving skills. This is how I can support my community,” remarks Tarin Akther from her school in Bangladesh. Tarin learned first aid and cyclone preparedness skills from the Red Cross and Red Crescent alongside 29 of her schoolmates at the South Khali Girls School in rural Bangladesh. Tarin loves […]
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This short resource brings together the blended learning stories and experiences of seven National Societies in the RC/RC network practicing blended first aid training. Each case study highlights an element of the innovation that is happening in first aid training in RC/RC National Socieites. It is clear that there is a good deal of innovative
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This case study is one of six, documenting evidence on the impact of and lessons from cash preparedness support programmes by the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement in Viet Nam between 2015 and 2017. Find more resources and informational materials on cash assistance in emergencies on the Cash Hub. Cash Hub https://cash-hub.org/resources/cash-in-emergencies
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This case study is one of six, documenting evidence on the impact of and lessons from cash preparedness support programmes by the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement in Philippines between 2015 and 2017. Find more resources and informational materials on cash assistance in emergencies on the Cash Hub. Cash Hub https://cash-hub.org/resources/cash-in-emergencies
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“Each and every person here has huge potential. We just have to bring it out,” says Harun al Rashid—an American Red Cross staff member training people displaced from Rakhine on skills needed for monsoon season. Some of his students stand behind him in their orange disaster preparedness wear. Harun is one of the founding
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Over the past two years, more than 700,000 people have fled Rakhine State, Myanmar to seek safety in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Many arrived injured, malnourished, and devastated. They speak of dangerous journeys—walking days on end to reach the border and losing touch with family members along the way. Once in Bangladesh, they crowd into camps
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In the six years since the creation of 100 Resilient Cities, more than 70 cities have published Resilience Strategies containing over 3,000 initiatives. To date, more than US$25 billion has been catalyzed by 100RC member cities toward the resilience agenda, and the world’s leading development financial institutions are building resilience criteria into how large-scale infrastructure projects
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This video show case the process of city resilience coalition building process initiated by PMI (Indonesia Red Cross) and led by the local governments of cities of Ternate and Semerang in Indonesia.
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The United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to reduce disaster risk. The GAR is published biennially by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), and is the product of the contributions of nations, public and private disaster risk-related science
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The World Metereological Organization (WMO) marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate, which was first issued in 1194. The 2019 edition treating data for 2018 marks sustained international efforts dedicated to reporting on, analysing and understanding the year-to-year variations and long-term trends of a changing climate. Some
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