This publication from UN-Habitat covers a wide range of traditional financing instruments for cities, as well as innovative financing options including green bonds, inter-municipal coordination for pooled financing, and landbased financing instruments. It also includes a chapter on ‘Financing Investments in Slums and Informal Settlements’. The book recognizes that cities’ immense financial challenges cannot be […]
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The Advocacy Toolkit provides a broadly accepted definition of advocacy and detailed steps, guidance and tools for developing and implementing an advocacy strategy. The Toolkit also outlines eight foundational areas that can help strengthen an office’s capacity for advocacy, and covers several crosscutting aspects of advocacy including: monitoring and evaluating advocacy managing knowledge in advocacy
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This guide was developed by members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee and Experts Group on Resilience as a simple “how to” guide to allow people in the field to analyse what is needed to boost the resilience of specific groups, specific systems, and specific programmes, to the risks people face every day. The guidance is aimed
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The city strength diagnostic has been developed to help World Bank staff apply the city resilience framework (developed by Arup International and the Rockefeller Foundation) to World Bank operations. The city resilience framework provides a lens through which the complexity of cities and the numerous factors that contribute to a city’s resilience can be understood and is being
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The Rockefeller Foundation has been working with HR&A Associates to develop a workshop-based Resilience Academy that they have offered to local governments in the United States. The Academy brings together mulit-disciplinary teams of stakeholders from a local city to participate in a series of workshops to better understand resilience concepts, analyze resilience needs in their
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On August 26, 2016, the IFRC and American Red Cross hosted a showcase and workshop in support of the 1 Billion Coalition for Resilience (1BC) and invited other actors to learn about and consider joining this initiative to bring a greater focus on community resilience and greater opportunities for direct public participation to the global resilience agenda.
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Los centros de referencia, que forman parte del Movimiento de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja, le han proporcionado una contribución valiosa a la comunidad humanitaria durante más de 20 años. El primer centro se fundó en 1991 y a partir de entonces el número se ha incrementado a 10 centros ubicados alrededor del
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The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is requesting proposals for a new consultancy on City-wide Assessment for Community Resilience. Working in collaboration with the IFRC and American Red Cross, the GDPC has received an award from USAID/OFDA to design and test a set of tools and services to assist RCRC National Societies and other local
An article by Cynthia Renaud, police chief in Folsom, California, on how to strengthen the National Incident Management System (NIMS) by integrating solutions for managing complexity. The article explores the dynamics of the initial edge-of-chaos that characterizes the first phase of every large-scale incident and offers recommendations for additions to NIMS that will better prepare first-responding
Short posting by Timothy Riecker that outlines a set of simple guidelines for maximizing the value of injects in disaster management simulations and drills. Five Guidelines for Creating Effective Disaster Exercise Injects https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-guidelines-creating-effective-disaster-exercise-riecker-cedp
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