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Becoming Climate Resilient: An Executive Business Case for Climate Resilience

“We believe this [An Executive Business Case for Climate Resilience] is important because the business community can be more agile than governments. It can move quickly to assess risk, promote systems and technology, and set standards for resilience. It is also well positioned to advocate for resilience thinking because of its direct relationships with customers, […]

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The effects of climate change on internal and international migration: implications for developing countries

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This synthesis paper informs the development community about the effects of climate change on migration patterns within and out of developing countries, concentrating on the economic aspects of migration. Empirical evidence shows that people in developing countries respond to climatic change by migrating internally. Evidence on the relationship between climate change and international migration is

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World Disasters Report 2009 – Early Warning Early Action

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The World Disasters Report 2009 focuses on disaster risk reduction under the title Early Warning Early Action. The report emphasizes the need to invest in a culture of prevention. Early action is portrayed as an investment for the future, and far more effective in the long run being perpetually caught up in a reactive cycle of

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Market Analysis in Emergencies

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The recent emphasis on market analysis has been on its use in the relatively new modality of cash transfers, but it is relevant for all kinds of agency response. Understanding how markets are affected by crises and how agency response can both be informed by markets as well as impact markets is a fundamental part

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Urban Volunteering in Asia Pacific: A study of recruitment, engagement and retention

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Strategy 2020 and the Federation’s Volunteering Policy 2011 reaffirm volunteering as being fundamental to the organisation’s vision and values. Each National Society depends upon volunteers to help vulnerable people in everyday programs and crisis situations. However, the opportunities for humanitarian action are evolving. With over half of the world’s population living in fragmented and diverse

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Viet Nam Case Study Report: How Law and Regulation Support Disaster Risk Reduction

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Viet Nam is prone to many different types of natural hazards. They are mainly hydro-meteorological, such as recurring floods and storms, but also include low to moderate risks of droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires, cold and heat waves, and animal disease epidemics. Apart from their devastating impact on human lives and health, these disasters can

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Missing Persons – A hidden tragedy

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People have gone missing as long as men have been fighting wars. The plight of people missing in armed conflict and the suffering of their families has been a consistent concern to the ICRC. This specially commissioned report, written by an independent journalist, turns the spotlight onto the plight of missing persons and their families.

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Missing in Lebanon: Report on the Needs of their Families

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Decades later, the fate of thousands of people who went missing in connection with armed conflicts in Lebanon still haunts their families. The findings of a report by the ICRC showed that even many years after the disappearance, what families require primarily and most urgently is to know what happened to their missing relatives, a

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Elders leading the way to resilience

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This report describes and assesses the experience of Ofunato, Japan, which was devastated by the 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. After the GEJE, older people wanted to do something useful to help Ofunato recover. With facilitation by the NGO Ibasho, elders and other community members planned and built the Ibasho Café, which now acts as

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Nepal Disaster Report 2011: Policies, Practices, and Lessons

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This report is a compendium of understanding, concepts, experiences and lessons of disaster risk management (DRM) and emergency response planning and capacity building in Nepal. It reflects the status of DRM in Nepal including peoples’ aspiration and portrays the efforts made by people and agencies – the government at the central and local levels, the

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Becoming Climate Resilient: An Executive Business Case for Climate Resilience

The effects of climate change on internal and international migration: implications for developing countries

World Disasters Report 2009 – Early Warning Early Action

Market Analysis in Emergencies

Urban Volunteering in Asia Pacific: A study of recruitment, engagement and retention

Viet Nam Case Study Report: How Law and Regulation Support Disaster Risk Reduction

Missing Persons – A hidden tragedy

Missing in Lebanon: Report on the Needs of their Families

Elders leading the way to resilience

Nepal Disaster Report 2011: Policies, Practices, and Lessons

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