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
![The Demography of Adaptation to Climate Change](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
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...
Report
![Building Sustainability in an Urbanizing World: A Partnership Report](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The report summarizes the sustainability issues faced by cities and points toward the road ahead. It reviews successes in policy as well as investment and discusses what is needed to reach out to the rapidly growing cities of the developing world and...
Research
![Role of social capital in reinforcing community resilience](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The study published by IFRC finds that while social capital has always played an implicit role in the community-based work of the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement – the volunteerism at its core, as well as the community-based committees and ac...
Guidance material
![Cities and Flooding](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century provides forward-looking operational assistance to policy makers and technical specialists in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world on how best to man...
Guidance material
![A Workbook on Planning for Urban Resilience in the Face of Disasters](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This Workbook offers a step-by-step guide for city officials in proactively planning for natural disasters and climate change impacts. It is based on learning from three cities in Vietnam – Ha Noi, Can Tho, and Dong Hoi – that developed Local...
Game
![The Before the Storm game](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This is a card based game designed to accelerate the learning processes required to turn early warning into early action. The game is based on forecast-based options and decisions. In many developing countries, consumers of weather forecasts often ca...
Game
![The Dissolving Disasters Game](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This is a resilience game in which players assume the role of subsistence farmers organized into village teams, players make individual decisions that lead to collective patterns of choice and risk. The game features trade-offs between collaboration...
Game
![The Dwelling Near the Ditch Game](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The Dwelling Near the Ditch Game aims to support learning and dialogue about the opportunities and trade-offs facing communities which lack waste collection services, and the additional stress that climate change (in the form of more frequent floodin...
Game
![The Ready! Game](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Ready enables focused conversations with communities on disaster preparedness and disaster risk reduction. It was designed by students at Parsons School of Design for use by the American Red Cross in the Zambezi river basin. Ready! is a relativ...