Public Awareness and Public Education

Building capacities: Community and branch development

Building Capacities: Best Practices in Asia Pacific (4/5) Red Cross and Red Crescent societies mobilize people at community level to improve the lives of the vulnerable. They achieve this by involving them in planning services that meet their own identified needs and building their long-term strengths to manage themselves.  This film contains many examples of

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Irish Red Cross CBHFA Prison project | Prison inmate Ryan talks about HIV awareness in prisons

Ireland is the first country in the world to introduce Community Based Health and First Aid (CBHFA) in Action through groups of special status Irish Red Cross Volunteer Inmates in a prison setting. The programme operates under a partnership between the Irish Red Cross, Irish Prison Service and Education Training Boards (formally known as the

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Disaster Resilience Capacities

A paper presented to the Australia and New Zealand Disaster Management Conference in May 2014 on the development of four disaster resilience capacities: wellbeing, knowledge, security and connection. Aim of the paper: This paper suggests a number of disaster resilience capacities and the factors that contribute to them. These broad capacities have at their core an understanding of the

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GDPC Research Activities

Advancing Disaster Preparedness through Research and Scientific Collaboration The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is committed to strengthening the knowledge base for disaster preparedness programming through research. We collaborate with universities, research institutions, and practitioners to build this evidence base and foster impactful cross-learning opportunities. Our Approach The GDPC prioritizes action-oriented research based on the

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Using Information Mapping And Data To Refine Your Decision Making Process

In the Greater Chicago Region of the American Red Cross we have been running a fire preparedness and mitigation program called Team Firestopper (TFS) for almost 15 years.  TFS was developed to specifically target the communities most impacted by home fires within our 13 county region in Northeastern Illinois and Northwestern Indiana. The program provides fire

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