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Case Study, Guidance material
![IFRC Partnership on Urban Disaster Risk Reduction](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The IFRC and Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran have initiated a Partnership on Urban Disaster Risk Reduction. Initial activies under the partnership include pilot studies in five cities: Nairobi, Kenya; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Jaka...
Guidance material
![Urban Risk Assessments: Understanding Disaster and Climate Risk in Cities](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The Urban Risk Assessment presents a flexible, cost-effective approach that project and city managers can use to identify feasible measures to assess a city’s risk. The methodology focuses on three reinforcing pillars that collectively contribute t...
Case Study
![Changing the Game: How Business Innovations Reduce the Impact of Disasters](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Set of case stuides from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation which explores how businesses are helping to reduce the impacts of disasters around the world. The report provides an interesting look at how companies and the Chamber of Commerce are s...
Report
![DLCI – Technical Brief: Progress measuring resilience in the Horn of Africa](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Technical brief on the concept of measuring resilience from experiences in the Horn of Africa. Developed by Catherine Fitzgibbon for Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative for Improved Policy and Pratice in the the Horn of Africa (DLCI).
Guidance material
![Food Security Information Network – Resilience Measurement Principles](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
First in a three part series discussing issues related to the measurement of resilience. From the Food Security Information Network’s Resilience Measurement Technical Working Group.
Other type of resource
![DRR law in Philippines, Rep. Act 10121](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
´An Act stregthening the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management System, providing for the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management framweork and institutionalizing the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan, appropria...
Report
![Scaling urban community resilience: A scoping study for global action](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This study, supported under a grant to the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) by the Rockefeller Foundation, explores opportunities for scaling up efforts on community resilience in cities and outlines the potential for a new initiative to s...