Global Disaster Preparedness Center
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Training material
This gender training pack is made up of 20 case studies collected for training purposes. The case studies are based on real situations and demonstrate the relevance and benefit of considering gender issues in Red Cross and Red Crescent core activitie...
Video
Message from the Ocean or Pesan dari Samudra, is a 2012 feature film on how to prepare for earthquakes and tsunamis developed by the Indonesian Red Cross and Australian Red Cross. Message from the Ocean was followed in 2015 by Songs of the Rainy...
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Songs of the Rainy Season or Nyanyian Musim Hujan is a film developed by the Indonesian Red Cross and Australian Red Cross with disaster preparedness messages on floods and landslides. The film is a sequel to Message from the Ocean or Pesan dari S...
Other type of resource
Elizabeth Ferris, Co-Director of the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, remarks on the intersection between violence and disasters, and its implications for humanitarian response in urban settings. She cites the experiences and challenge...
Report
This report by Anna Lindley, Lecturer in Migration and Development at SOAS, University of London, focuses on the humanitarian crisis in Somalia and the environmental, political, and structural dimensions and processes underlying it. The multi-causal...
Video
In emergencies, it is critical that crisis-affected communities have access to information and life-saving communications to them to better understand issues that affect their lives and to make the informed decisions for themselves and their communit...
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This documentary has been produced by IOM Mission in Azerbaijan, with the financial support received from Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), within the “Kahriz Rehabilitation Project”. It features the project implementation p...
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In 2010, floods devastated Pakistan on massive scale. IOM provided emergency shelter to 2.76 million individuals and life-saving health services to 120,000 individuals. In addition, IOM completed over 9,000 one room shelters and reached 7 million ind...
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This video looks at UNICEF-supported initiatives and investments in education and risk reduction programs in the disaster-prone region of Albay Province, Philippines. These programs target school-aged children with the hopes of building resilience...