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Safer, Stronger, Smarter: A Guide to Improving School Natural Hazard Safety

This guide provides up-to-date, authoritative information that schools can use to develop a comprehensive strategy for addressing natural hazards. It presents information and guidance on: Identifying natural hazards that could potentially impact a school; Making new and existing school buildings safer for children and staff, and more resistant to damage during natural disasters; Planning and preparing […]

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Practicing humanitarian diplomacy: an introduction Humanitarian diplomacy guidance

This guidance provides the fundamental considerations and steps to designing humanitarian diplomacy activities. Additional guidance documents will be produced which will provide separate thematic and tailored advice on the basis of identi ed need, and designed to support the membership with its practice of humanitarian diplomacy.  The intended audience for this guidance is volunteers and paid

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Desastres en América: Argumentos para la preparación jurídica

Marcos jurídicos sólidos son fundamentales para reducir la exposición a riesgos, orientar la preparación y respuesta a desastres. Sin embargo, a menudo se pasa por alto la planificación de la preparación para atenderlos.    El presente informe aborda tres áreas clave, donde la adecuada legislación puede marcar una diferencia y donde Sociedades Nacionales de la

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Guía sobre la función de las Sociedades Nacionales de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja en calidad de auxiliares de los poderes públicos – América

La guía pretende ilustrar el alcance de la labor concebible en el marco de la función de las Sociedades Nacionales en calidad de auxiliares de los poderes públicos, de manera que los Estados y las Sociedades Nacionales puedan lograr sus objetivos humanitarios y de desarrollo. Este documento se puede utilizar conjuntamente con la Guía sobre

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Diplomacia humanitaria Introducción – Guía del Instructor y presentación

Este módulo tiene dos horas de duración. En él se presenta el concepto y las prácticas de diplomacia humanitaria para la Federación Internacional de Sociedades de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja (Federación Internacional) y las Sociedades Nacionales miembros. Se puede utilizar en cualquier curso de orientación dirigido a los voluntarios y

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Urban multi-sector vulnerability assessment tool for displacement contexts

Humanitarian agencies are strategically moving towards more integrated programming across sectors, whilst also strategically increasing urban programming coverage for persons affected by displacement and host communities, including Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), refugee and host populations. NRC has invested in the development of this multi-sector urban assessment tool due to a lack of both urban-specific multi-sector

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Urban Stakeholder Engagement and Coordination

This guidance note provides key principles and considerations for individual organisations to use when making decisions on how to engage and coordinate with local and international actors throughout the programme life-cycle, to ensure effective implementation of the agency’s response. It is intended to help improve the communication, collaboration, and coordination of humanitarian agencies with other

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Urban Response Analysis Framework, IIED

The purpose of this Urban Response Analysis Framework (URAF) is to support the identification of appropriate multi-sector programme responses for urban contexts taking into consideration the needs and vulnerabilities of the population, and the wider internal and external operational context in which organisations operate and the displaced population lives. Multi-sectoral approaches and vulnerability assessments are

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