The Indonesian Red Cross (Palang Merah Indonesia, PMI) is working with communities to help them understand the basic science of climate change and use this knowledge to adapt to the consequent changing weather and nature of disasters. PMI has listened to local concerns and as a result supports a community based risk reduction initiative to […]
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Trincomalee district in eastern Sri Lanka was severely affected by the tsunami of 2004. Several years later, most people directly affected by the tsunami have been resettled. Yet many of them continue to face problems, one of which is a climate that is increasingly variable and extreme. Sri Lanka Red Cross Society’s (SLRCS) Community Based
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Visit the NRRC at: http://www.un.org.np/coordinationmech… Follow the NRRC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NepalDRR Follow the NRRC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NepalDRR Flagship 1 of the Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium (NRRC) is coordinated by the Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Education, the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health and Population. Flagship 1 will strengthen over 900 school buildings and the major
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Visit the NRRC at: http://www.un.org.np/coordinationmech…Visit Flagship 2 at: http://flagship2.nrrc.org.np/Follow the NRRC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NepalDRRFollow the NRRC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NepalDRR Flagship 2 of the Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium is coordinated by the Red Cross and the Ministry of Home Affairs. Flagship 2 will prepare and train medical first responders, develop disaster response and information management planning, warehouse and stockpile good,
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Visit the NRRC at: http://www.un.org.np/coordinationmech… Follow the NRRC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NepalDRR Follow the NRRC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NepalDRR Flagship 3 of the Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium (NRRC) is coordinated by the World Bank and the Ministry of Irrigation. Flagship 3 will reduce flood risk through detailed assessments, flood forecasting and mitigation activities.
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Visit the NRRC at: http://www.un.org.np/coordinationmech…Visit Flagship 4 at: http://flagship4.nrrc.org.np/Follow the NRRC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NepalDRRFollow the NRRC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NepalDRR Flagship 4 of the Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium is coordinated by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development. Flagship 4’s target is the completion of Community Based
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The Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) has developed a CBDRR Manual to guide Red Cross Volunteers and program staff in implementing common and an integrated approach to the community-based risk reduction program. Together with the CBDRR Awareness Tool Box, the CBDRR Manual provides guidance and support to the implementation of community-based programs in Myanmar by explaining each of
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Case study on a VCA undertaken in Tamboko, Radefasu, in the Solomon Islands^in 2005.
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Case study on a VCA undertaken in Sili, Samoa, in 2009.
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Case study and Guidance note to the VCA undertaken in Mindanao, Camiguin, Philippines, in 2003.
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