This report from the USAID-funded Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments (ATLAS) project examines efforts to better understand and manage the risks of extreme heat on human wellbeing, including the public health burden heat poses and the direct and indirect impacts of heatwaves. The assessment was made in support of the Climate Service for Resilient Development […]
The Pillowcase Project is a school-based disaster preparedness education program first implemented in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 by American Red Cross volunteers in Louisiana, before being rolled out in 7 countries across the world. Originally designed for children aged 8 to 11 (grades 3–5), it provides key preparedness messages combining coping skill
As Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) societies move forward to deliver digital disaster information and preparedness messaging, the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is asking how best to capitalize on the growing accessibility of digital communications for future outreach. Emerging questions like, ‘Should we invest more in gaming or in applications that educate and/or deliver services?’ and ‘Which
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This document concerns administrative operations for running the “CAP Editor” freeware. CAP Editor is a tool for creating and publishing emergency alerts in the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) format. CAP Editor runs on the Amazon Web Services cloud.
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This document annotates a screen-by-screen preview of the CAP Editor freeware, as it would be seen by a person authenticated in the role of “composer” or “approver”.
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This document provides an example template for the particular phrases (about 1,000 words total) that must be translated to enable the CAP Editor to customize its user interface. Translations to the new language are indicated by replacing the entries in the “French” column (noting that the words highlighted in yellow must remain in English). Once
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The Common Alerting Protocol standard, officially designated as International Telecommunication Union Recommendation X.1303, is described in an online alerting context.
CAP Editor presents a link to CAP alert message templates in HTML that provide text suggestions for the “headline”, “description” and “instruction” elements of a CAP alert. These CAP alert message templates address about 20 common alerting situations. The templates are in English, Dutch, French, Papiamento, and Spanish.
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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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The aim of this report is to raise the profile and provide a better understanding of the humanitarian shelter and settlements sector. This report is intended to be used by humanitarian policy makers, donors, governments, academics and senior managers of humanitarian agencies and institutions, to better prepare for and meet the shelter and settlement needs
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