Aynur Kadihasanoglu
aynur.kadihasanoglu@redcross.org
Geneva,
I work at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center and the American Red Cross, Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) as the Senior Urban Specialist. Focus of my work is strengthening local capacities through close collaboration with global partners and field teams and developing innovative approaches, tools and methodologies aimed at scaling up impact in urban settings. Some examples of work include starting and leading the Urban Collaboration Platform of IFRC (2015-21), leading the Coastal Cities and Coalition Program (2017-21) and managing the Extreme Heat Small grants program of the GDPC and CC (2022). My motivation is to use my educational background in city and regional planning, combined with earlier work in the development arena with the UN and the World Bank to help RCRC National Societies be confident and skilled in understanding and taking action against the compounding risks that the urban communities are facing.
Report
![Research on Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management.](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This Strategic research into national and local capacity building for disaster risk management includes a sythesis report, policy recommendations, literature review and case studies. The research is conducted Oxford Policy Management (OPM) and the...
Guidance material
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City Strength Diagnostic was developed to help World Bank staff apply this new holistic approach to urban resilience to operations. It was designed to help facilitate a dialogue among stakeholders (e.g. government, civil society, residents, and the p...
Report
![Key Considerations in Post-Disaster Reconstruction Lessons from Aceh](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
In October 2007, almost three years after the tsunami, the DEC commissioned experts from Arup to carry out a short mission to Aceh to review the post-tsunami reconstruction programme undertaken by DEC Member Agencies. The aim of the mission was to pr...
Guidance material
![](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/climate_and_disaster_resilience_1.png)
Community-driven development is an approach “… that gives control over planning decisions and investment resources to community groups and local governments.” Historically, programs using a CDD approach grew out of situations of crisis (financi...
Guidance material
![Integrating Climate Change into City Development Strategies](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The guide is intended to be of particular benefit for the following groups: • Planners working in local governments cities in lowand middle-income countries that are developing a City Development Strategy, have some knowledge of climate change a...
Case Study
![](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/muralpedrito_ecuador_2_0.jpg)
Over the next two decades the number of city dwellers will soar to nearly five billion, 60 percent of the world’s population. Virtually all of this urban growth will occur in cities of the developing world, overwhelming ecosystems and placing treme...
Report
![](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/integrated_climate_change_into_market-based_development_programming.png)
This report is the second of its kind, analyzing displacement trends within the first half of 2014. The figures in this report were collected from governments and UNHCR offices around the world. UNHCR introduced a new online data collection tool to e...
Assessment or evaluation
![Nepal Earthquake Lessons 2015](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This lessons paper aims to assist operational agencies responding to the 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake. It provides 17 lessons drawn from experience of previous comparable disasters, based on evaluations, research papers and interviews with operatio...
Guidance material
![E-Voucher Food Card Program by WFP/Turkish Red Crescent](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Turkish Red Crescent Society partnered with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to launch the e-voucher food card programme to assist thousands of Syrians who were under international protection in Turkey. The e-voucher Food Card works like...