The joint ALNAP-CDA action-research included case studies in Darfur (World Vision), Pakistan (IOM), and Haiti (IFRC) as well as highlights and showcases about feedback practices at Oxfam America, Save the Children and Catholic Relief Services. There is a method paper, an extensive literature review, the main study and a guidance document has been translated into […]
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In the Greater Chicago Region of the American Red Cross we have been running a fire preparedness and mitigation program called Team Firestopper (TFS) for almost 15 years. TFS was developed to specifically target the communities most impacted by home fires within our 13 county region in Northeastern Illinois and Northwestern Indiana. The program provides fire
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To improve its understanding of social media, the Canadian Red Cross commissioned Ipsos Reid, a leading polling agency, to conduct a survey to explore how Canadians use social media and mobile technology during emergencies—and their expectations around the use of social media by emergency responders. The survey — the first of its kind in Canada — reached
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In the aftermath of the hurricanes Ingrid and Manuel (September 2013) thousands of families in Mexico lost their houses, possessions and even their loved ones. According to Relief Web: “218 000 people were directly affected by storms Ingrid and Manuel, 139 people died, 53 are still missing, and 52 430 people are in shelters. A
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When you live in a valley surrounded by mountains, you see everything coming. For the past few years, we feared tanks and troops. This time was different. As spring slowly transformed the mountains, humanitarian trucks appeared on the horizon. It was 1995, I was seven years old, and the post-soviet civil war had forced my
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For those living in border communities in Latin America, access to emergency services can be tenuous to non-existent. Where there are assets or pre-hospital services available there can be legal or regulatory barriers to the actual delivery of service. Our team in the disaster law programme was commissioned to work out the legal issues preventing
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The IFRC and Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran have initiated a Partnership on Urban Disaster Risk Reduction. Initial activies under the partnership include pilot studies in five cities: Nairobi, Kenya; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Jakarta, Indonesia; Yerevan, Armenia; and Tehran, Iran. As one of the outcomes of this partnership a guide to urban resilience that
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Emergency procedures and public information regarding extreme cold weather compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These guidelines have been developed for use in the United States, but may be relevant in other areas with similar climates. This resource includes preparing your home and vehicle, recognition
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Video of North Dakota residents offer advice and tips on surviving a flood.
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Fire remains one of the leading causes of unintentional deaths in California and the Nation and accounts for 90 percent of annual disaster responses by the American Red Cross. For those living in Central California, they are no exception. Due to the prevailing economic conditions in the Central Valley most homeowners and renters often do
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