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Building Urban Resilience workshop: Panama City, Panama

With support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) brought together more than 50 participants from 16 national societies, as well as representatives from several of the Federation’s (IFRC) sub-regional offices and from the Red Cross regional and global reference centers, to share […]

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The Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction – Building safer, resilient communities

Success of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) is critically dependent on implementation among communities that are repeatedly affected by disasters and it is here that National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have a strong role to play. Thus, consistent with the HFA, the purpose of this Global Alliance is to scale up the

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Disaster risk reduction and the International Federation

At its core, disaster risk reduction is about reducing human vulnerability and strengthening resilience to the risks posed by natural hazards. Moreover, disaster risk reduction concerns the collective ability of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to deliver on its Global Agenda, which commits to “reduce the number of deaths, injuries

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Managing the Risk of Humanitarian Crises

The number of people affected by humanitarian crises has almost doubled over the past decade and is expected to keep rising. In early 2014, international aid organizations aimed to assist 52 million people in crisis, and millions more people sought help from their communities, local organizations and Governments.   The report published by OCHA emphasizes a shift towards a more anticipatory and preventative approach

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City Resilience Framework – City Resilience Index

This framework published by the Rockefeller Foundation as part of their 100 Resilient Cities Campaign is intended to form the basis of a tool that should enable all of us interested in city resilience to convene around a common understanding of that idea, and begin to ‘baseline’ what matters most for making cities more resilient. Both the framework and the index

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Building Resilience: Integrating Climate and Disaster Risk into Development

This report presents the World Bank’s experience in climate and disaster resilient development, and contends that such development is essential to eliminating extreme poverty and achieving shared prosperity by 2030. The report recognizes, however, that such development requires additional start-up costs, which pay off in the long run if done correctly. Given this, the report argues for closer collaboration between the

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Characteristics of a Safe and Resilient Community

This research report draws on the experience of the TRP CBDRR programmes and current literature in order to identify the ‘characteristics of safe and resilientcommunities; to understand how these characteristics changed over time and howRCRC interventions have contributed to this change’.It is intended that the characteristics arising from this research will be used in the design, monitoring

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Notes d’orientation pour la construction d’écoles plus sûres

Les Notes d’orientation pour la construction d’écoles plus sûres présentent un cadre de principes directeurs et de mesures générales pour élaborer un plan spécifique permettant de remédier à cette grave brèche qui empêche la réalisation de l’Éducation pour tous (EPT) et les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement (OMD) en créant et en modernisant des bâtiments

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The Red Cross Red Crescent and the Hyogo Framework for Action – Focus on the Asia/Pacific region

This document describes some of the ways that National Societies in the Asia-Pacific region have been contributing to the implementation of the five priorities of the Hyogo Framework Action, grouped according to the main activities under each priority. Case Study: The Red Cross Red Crescent and the Hyogo Framework for Action – Focus on the Asia/Pacific

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