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.
Game
![Decisions for the Decade Game](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
In Decisions for the Decade, each participant is a provincial governor and small teams make up the governing body of a nation. All participants begin the game with a budget of ten beans (for a ten-year cycle), and seek to maximize the prosperity of t...
Game
![Shaping your Shelter: A game on post-disaster reconstruction of homes](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
A participatory activity for communities affected by disasters aimed at inspiring a desire to learn about safe building methods, in particular “bracing” (structural reinforcement). With limited time and materials, players construct shelter for ho...
Game
![Answer with Your Feet – Ice Breaker](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Ice breaker to open and/or debrief an interactive session and consolidate insights from medium to large groups unfamiliar with each other Learning Objectives: Engage all participants in group reflection to reveal diversity of participant perspective...
Game
Assessment or evaluation
![Analysis of Red Cross/Red Crescent Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments for African Cities](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Between late 2013 and early 2014 the IFRC supported several African National Societies to conduct Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (VCA) in urban communities. VCA reports were prepared for: Yaounde VI Subdivision, Yaounde, Cameroon, Arada Sub...
Guidance material
![](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/the_cities_report_9.png)
The dynamics of urban settings makes profiling a complicated exercise. How to locate displaced households dispersed across vast metropolises, when they might not want to be found? How – and whether – to distinguish forcibly displaced people from...
Report
![The State of African Cities 2014, UNHABITAT](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The African continent is currently in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Africa’s economic performance is promising, with booming ...
Report
![Managing the Risk of Humanitarian Crises](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
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 so...
Research
![](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/city_resilience_index.png)
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 th...