Building on the success of its Safety Check tool, Facebook is develop new features to enable local users to connect with each other during crisis events through local ‘crisis hubs’. Wired magazine article — https://www.wired.com/2016/11/facebook-disaster-response/
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The New Urban Agenda is the 20-year global blueprint adopted by United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development or Habitat III, which closed in Quito, Ecuador, on October 20. The New Urban Agenda envisions an urban paradigm shift in which cities and human settlements must be for everyone. The Agenda also calls for
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Focuses on humanitarian crisis and cities and how the Movement’s work links up to the New Urban Agenda
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The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) in collaboration with the IFRC and American Red Cross has received an award from USAID/OFDA to design and test a set of tools and services to assist Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) National Societies and their partners to create effective city coalitions on community resilience, targeting climate smart resilience
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Building resilience to disasters is increasingly being recognized as a priority area in order to protect hard-earned development gains in the Asia-Pacific region. The private sector alone is estimated to hold 70 to 85 per cent of the investment in most national economies and makes over $80 trillion worth of institutional investments globally on
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This document provides an overview of different assessment methodologies. It is not a comprehensive list and only provides a snapshot of commonly used methodlogies.
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The Arab League: The League of Arab States, or Arab League, is a voluntary association of countries whose peoples are mainly Arabic speaking or where Arabic is an official language. The League’s main goal is to “draw closer the relations between member States and co-ordinate collaboration between them, to safeguard their independence and sovereignty, and
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The African Union: The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in 1963, with the objectives “to promote the unity and solidarity of African states; coordinate and intensify their cooperation and efforts to achieve a better life for the peoples of Africa; safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Member States; rid the continent of
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The Gulf Cooperation Council: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is a “political and economic alliance of six Middle Eastern countries—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. The GCC was established in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in May 1981. The purpose of the GCC is to achieve unity among its members based on
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UNISDR’s mandate: UNISDR was established in 1999 as a dedicated secretariat to facilitate the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN agency for ISDR). UNISDR’s mandate has been defined by a number of United Nations General Assembly Resolutions, the most notable of which is “to serve as the focal point in the United
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