Throughout 2011 a devastating drought developed in Kenya that was described as the worst drought in 60 years in the Horn of Africa. By mid-year left more than 3.75 Million Kenyans were left with no access to water and food and over 385,000 children under 5 years old were affected by acute malnutrition. Despite the […]
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Business Preparedness for Community Resilience
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“In the absence of the play-spirit, civilization is impossible.” Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens, 1938. Game play can be deadly earnest. Nations stake their honour on a leather ball, soldiers march on parade, and the people of at-risk communities act out their own survival. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Climate Centre designs and uses games
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The synthesis report distils and integrates the findings of the three working group contributions to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) – the most comprehensive assessment of climate change yet undertaken, produced by hundreds of scientists – as well as the two Special Reports produced during this cycle. The report addresses the following topics: (i)
IPCC fifth assessment report: climate change 2014 – Synthesis report Read More »
This report summarizes an 18-month, evidence-based study that sought to understand practitioner information needs by asking the question: What are successful Red Cross/Red Crescent (RCRC) preparedness practitioners already doing that works, and how can the organization better support their information needs in what they are already doing? A research team from the University of Washington conducted
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Scaling urban and community resilience: A strategy for global action This strategy paper outlines the concept for a collective global initiative on urban and community resilience. The goal is to encourage and enable a much greater number of communities to initiate and sustain climate resilience activities. With the Red Cross Red Crescent (RC/RC) and key
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This document, publiched by DFID, is intended to capture discussions from a series of stakeholder consultations on humanitarian response to urban crises through the topics of working with governments, the built environment, complex communities and markets.
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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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A participatory activity for communities affected by disasters aimed at inspiring a desire to learn about safe building methods, in particular “bracing” (structural reinforcement). With limited time and materials, players construct shelter for households recently affected by an extreme event. They confront the trade-offs between quick and cheap housing versus stronger but more resource- and
Shaping your Shelter: A game on post-disaster reconstruction of homes Read More »
First in a three part series discussing issues related to the measurement of resilience. From the Food Security Information Network’s Resilience Measurement Technical Working Group.
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