Building Capacities: Best Practices in Asia Pacific (4/5) Red Cross and Red Crescent societies mobilize people at community level to improve the lives of the vulnerable. They achieve this by involving them in planning services that meet their own identified needs and building their long-term strengths to manage themselves. This film contains many examples of […]
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From Infoasaid: In any emergency, be it natural disaster or man-made, people’s lives are turned upside down. Knowing what’s happening, where to go for assistance and who to call for help is crucial to their survival and recovery. The goal of the ‘infoasaid’ project is to help humanitarian organisations integrate two way communication into their
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The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement believes communities need and deserve to have information that affects their future, both before and after a disaster. As in everyday life, communities make decisions based on the best possible information available to them at the given time. Sharing useful information with affected populations in languages they understand, through
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The British Red Cross uses mobile cinema to tackle cholera in Sierra Leone. It may not have the same glamour as Hollywood, but through the power of film the British Red Cross is tackling the deadly cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone.
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In a disaster, information can be as valuable as water, food or shelter. The Red Cross is using tools such as radio and SMS to provide people with simple but life-saving information that can help them to prepare for, survive and then recover from future disasters.
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http://www.ifrc.org/beneficiary-commu…Le mouvement Croix-Rouge Croissant-Rouge pense que les communautés ont besoin et méritent d’avoir des informations qui pourront améliorer leur vie future, avant et après un désastre. Dans leur vie de tous les jours, les communautés prennent des décisions basées sur la meilleure information possible mise à leur disposition à un moment donné. Le partage des informations
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For more information: http://ifrc.org/beneficiary-communica… “Las personas afectadas por desastres necesitan información al igual que agua, comida, medicina o alojamiento: la información precisa y oportuna puede salvar vidas.”Informe Mundial de Desastres 2005 FICRComunicación con Beneficiarios, es su derecho, ser escuchados.Comunicación con Beneficiarios, es una responsabilidad, no es una opción.
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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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Set of language learning resources available from thr Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) in the U.S. which is well regarded for its foreign language instruction. DLIFLC Basic Language and Culture Acquisition courses http://www.dliflc.edu/products.html
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In Decisions for the Decade, each participant is a provincial governor and small teams make up the governing body of a nation. All participants begin the game with a budget of ten beans (for a ten-year cycle), and seek to maximize the prosperity of their province and country by investing their budget in long-term development.
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