Toolkit, updates, and list of champions for the campaign which now includes over 1,400 cities. Making Cities Resilient Campaign http://www.unisdr.org/campaign/resilientcities
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A global website to share knowledge on urban humanitarian crises. Urban Humanitarian Response Portal http://www.urban-response.org
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A paper that outlines “key lessons related to the design and implementation of urban disaster-response programmes … written for people planning and implementing relief and early recovery operations in urban areas: those who have to decide if, when and how to intervene.” Responding to Urban Disasters: Learning from Previous Relief and Recovery Operations http://www.alnap.org/pool/files/alnap-lessons-urban-2012.pdf
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The paper analyses the opportunities and implications for early earning systems on the background of a changing climate and urban growth. Emerging Challenges for Early Warning Systems in context of Climate Change and Urbanization http://www.dkkv.org/DE/ressource.asp?ID=290
This report highlights a wide overview of data and trends regarding the growing “vulnerability gap” in urban areas. World Disasters Report 2010 – Urban Risk http://www.ifrc.org/en/publications-and-reports/world-disasters-report/wdr2010
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Report of a Red Cross Red Crescent project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, that has “explored ways of integrating climate with health programming in Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania and Vietnam, approaching the issue from three angles: the priorities of communities; integrating climate factors with operations themselves; and reducing risk.” Health Risk Management in a changing climate
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Range of materials developed by the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET) on school earthquake preparedness, safe school construction, and school preparedness curricula. School Earthquake Preparedness: A TOT Manual for Teachers Training, Protection of Educational Buildings Against Earthquake – Manual for Designers and Builders, Seismic Vulnerability of the Public School Buildings of Kathmandu Valley and Methods for Reducing
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A handbook to assist policy makers and project managers engaged in large-scale post-disaster reconstruction programs make decisions about how to reconstruct housing and communities after natural disasters. Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing after Natural Disasters, https://www.gfdrr.org/sites/gfdrr/files/publication/SaferHomesStrongerCommunitit… https://www.gfdrr.org/housingreconstruction, https://www.gfdrr.org/sites/gfdrr/files/publication/SaferHomesStrongerCommunitites.pdf
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A collection of training materials on community based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) collected by the Red Cross Red Crescent national societies in South-East Asia. Collected set of resources on CBDRR https://sites.google.com/site/drrtoolsinsoutheastasia/disaster-risk-reduction/community-based-disaster-risk-reduction-cbdrr
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This handbook on sustainable reconstruction in urban areas seeks to unpack the problems that many organisations are confronted with in urban reconstruction and provide step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement housing reconstruction programmes in cities. Sustainable Reconstruction in Urban Areas: A Handbook http://www.ifrc.org/PageFiles/95526/publications/Urban%20reconstruction%20Handbook%20IFRC-SKAT.pdf
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