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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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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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Urban Guide: Road Map to Community Resilience via Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment

Urban considerations for operationalizing the Framework for Community Resilience through the Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (EVCA) This guide supports National Societies to adapt the Roadmap to Community Resilience via EVCA (R2R via EVCA v2) for urban contexts. Developed by IFRC in collaboration with the German Red Cross, it complements the existing EVCA toolbox by

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Red Cross Regional Disaster Unit: A Regional Disaster Response Unit Ups Its Game to Help More People in Need

The American Red Cross’s Regional Disaster Team (RDT) in Central/Southern Illinois is a small but mighty operation — just 10 paid staff members managing roughly 800 volunteers across a three-state area. This case study, published by Deloitte Insights, looks at how the team significantly improved its ability to help disaster-affected people over a ten-year period,

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