At the local level, the GDPC draws on the global reach of the Red Cross and Red Crescent to mobilize communities and explore creative solutions for longstanding and new problems through research and innovative programming that can be easily customized and replicated at scale to make communities safer. Our First Aid app, for example, has […]
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This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of ‘Child Centered Disaster Management Planning in India.’ As widespread poverty and climate change exacerbate the risk of disasters on children, it is time to embed corrective policy mechanisms that protect children against such risks. State and district disaster management plans are the instruments through which this
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This is the provisional Programme of the 2016 CAP Implementation Workshop, 23-24 August in Bangkok.
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This is the final list of participants in the 2016 CAP Implementation Workshop, 23-24 August in Bangkok. The list is divided into three parts: Participants Affiliated with Governmental Organizations Participants Affiliated with International Organizations Participants Affiliated with Other Organizations or Unaffiliated
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The 2016 CAP Implementation Workshop, 23-24 August, will be in the Conference Center at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) campus in Rangsit. The Workshop is a technical meeting conducted in English without interpretation. Fifty rooms have been reserved Aug 22-25 at the AIT Conference Center Hotel for Workshop Participants. All who intend to participate
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The 2016 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop was 23-24 August, in Bangkok, Thailand. The hosts of this Workshop were the Asian Institute of Technology and the Sahana Software Foundation. CAP Implementation Workshops focus on emergency alerting as enabled by the CAP standard, ITU-T Recommendation X.1303. At the Workshops, implementors of CAP and associated organizations
Description and details on the call for Case Studies on Coalition Building
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The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC), a joint venture of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and American Red Cross, works with the Red Cross and Red Crescent (RC/RC) network in development and delivery of youth disaster preparedness education. The
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Flyer about the 2015 CAP Implementation Workshop (Rome, Italy 23-24 September)
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Programme of the 2015 CAP Implementation Workshop (Rome, Italy 23-24 September)
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