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.
Awareness material
My Ideal City allows Bogota residents to give input on how to fix certain issues in the downtown area, becoming a forum for debate that builds to a series of possible solutions—such as how to house the city’s 1 million commuting students (sol...
Data set
DevelopmentCheck is a user driven and solution oriented online tool for citizen feedback on the transparency, participation and effectiveness of development projects. The community identifies priority development projects to monitor and then collects...
Guidance material
Games encourage empowered action and they generate shared experiences and discussions that are truly participatory. For humanitarian organizations and local volunteers it is an active learning experience; a playful dialogue about situated action r...
Guidance material
This document gives a few of many possible examples where RCRC pratitioners can use games in their work such as advocacy, dissemination of key messages across age groups or enhancing discussion of complex concepts such as climate change.
Guidance material
Many national climate change adaptation plans consider the need to plan over various timescales and acknowledge the essential role of local communities in addressing the changing risks. The Minimum Standards for local climate‐smart disaster risk...
Assessment or evaluation
This document is the result of an almost two-year engagement with the issue of loss and damage in Bangladesh. It provides an assessment of the first comprehensive process to better understand loss and damage at the national-level and presents...
Data set
InaSAFE is free software that produces realistic natural hazard impact scenarios for better planning, preparedness and response activities. It provides a simple but rigorous way to combine data from scientists, local governments and communities to p...
Report
Turkiye’de 17 Ağustos ve 12 Kasım 1999’da yaşanan Kocaeli ve Düzce Depremlerinin (Marmara Depremleri) ortaya çıkardığı hasarın telafisi için yapılan yatırım büyüklüğünü hesaplamak ve bu maliyetlerin ortaya c...
Report
This book addresses a major gap in adaptation efforts to date by pointing to the vital role that an understanding of population dynamics and an extensive use of demographic data have in developing pre-emptive and effective adaptation policies and pra...