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Responding to urban disasters: Learning from previous relief and recovery operations (ALNAP, 2012)

This 2012 ALNAP paper on urban lessons was written by David Sanderson, Paul Knox-Clarke and Leah Campbell and builds off a prior 2009 study written by Ian O’Donnell, Kristin Smart and Ben Ramalingam. It offers lessons pertaining to effective design and implementation of urban-response programs. It was written to serve as a practical field resource for international disaster management professionals, […]

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Contingency Planning Facilitator’s Guideline

This Facilitator’s Guide has been developed to support a four-days training course on Contingency Planning. It focuses on organizational contingency planning with the aim to ensure staff security during natural disasters and ensure the responsibility of emergency response. Handicap International, 2011. Link to online version http://www.handicapinternational.ph/docs/drm/manuals/2011-Contingency%20plan%20Facilitator%20Guideline.pdf

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China and Cambodia: Integrated programming and cooperation with local authorities boost communities’ disaster preparedness

The China and Cambodia examples, each dealt with separately in this case study, illustrate how integrated programming addresses community risks and needs in a more holistic way and how working closely with local authorities can support the smooth implementation and sustainability of actions that lead to safer and more resilient communities. The two boxes at

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Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Good Practice (Mercy Corps)

Based on its own learning, continual community feed-back, and a real-time evaluation during the September 2008 flood in the Far-Western Development Region of Nepal, Mercy Corps has identified 10 areas of good practice for community-based disaster risk reduction which are documented in this report. Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Good Practice http://www.preventionweb.net/files/10479_10479CommunityBasedDRRGoodPracticeR.pdf

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Beneficiary Communication and Accountability: A responsibility, not a choice (Lessons learned and recommendations from Indonesia, Haiti and Pakistan)

This document highlights the work that needs to be undertaken internally within the Red Cross Red Crescent to mainstream our approach to establish or maintain strong two-way communication and feedback within the communities we serve; including experimenting, training, strengthening and building on already established two-way communication mechanisms. To realize this crucial approach existing systems and processes will also need to reflect how

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Pelatihan KBBM-PERTAMA Untuk Sibat: Panduan Pelatih

Dalam upaya peningkatan kapasitas TSR (Tenaga Suka Rela) PMI dalam wadah Sibat (Siaga Bencana Berbasis Masyarakat) di bidang kesiapsiagaan bencana dan pengurangan risiko berbasis masyarakat, panduan ini akan membekali tim Sibat dengan pengetahuan mengenai Gerakan dan PMI juga ketrampilan-ketrampilan Kepalangmerahan. Diharapkan tim Sibat nantinya mempunyai kapasitas menggerakkan, memotivasi dan memobilisasi masyarakat dalam upaya mitigasi/pengurangan dan

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What are the tricks for Constructing Earthquake-resistant Buildings?

“This booklet targets the key players in the construction process of non-engineered building construction aiming to empower them with the new knowledge to fulfill the basic requirements of earthquake resistant buildings. This booklet can be distributed to the comunities, to the social workers and disaster related organizations as an awareness tool for creating the demand

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Palang Merah Indonesia Baseline Assessment 2009

Overview of Indonesia’s Disaster Risk Context in terms of its Hazards Profile and a Risk Analysis PMI’s Auxiliary Function and Capacity in the Implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Gathered from IFRC South-East Asia’s Road to Resilience site. Palang Merah Indonesia Baseline Assessment 2009 https://www.dropbox.com/s/tiojc80p87ocrei/Draft_Final_Baseline_Assessment_DRR_2010_PMI.pdf

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Pelatihan KBBBM-PERTAMA Untuk KSR: Panduan Pelatih

  (Community Based: Disaster Preparedness (CBDP) and Integrated Community Based Risk Reduction for the Volunteer Corps: A Training Module. First edition (2008). Bahasa Indonesia)    Gathered from IFRC South-East Asia’s Road to Resilience site. Pelatihan KBBBM-Pertama Untuk KSR: Panduan Pelatih https://www.dropbox.com/s/mm4il8pl6e6k66z/Buku_Pelatihan%20KBBM-Pertama%20untuk%20KSR.pdf

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