Rural homes in China that lack sanitation face health and hygiene issues, particularly during the flooding season. Red Cross programs, supported by the International Federation and funded by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department, have b...

http://www.worldbank.org/we – In one of the most densely populated areas in the world, the need for a dependable water supply is critical in the Gaza Strip. The scarce water resources presents a major humanitarian and development challenge. Th...

Organized communities living and working in hazard prone settlements bring perspectives and priorities to policy discussions that are distinct from the rest of civil society. This report documents a number of case studies where grassroots women’s o...

This publication, a supplement to the previously published “Public awareness and education for disaster risk reduction: a guide”, is offered as a tool for practitioners internationally to use in a consensus-building validation process. Na...

Scaling urban and community resilience: A strategy for global action This strategy paper outlines the concept for a collective global initiative on urban and community resilience. The goal is to encourage and enable a much greater number of communiti...

From 2010 – 2011 the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS), with support from the American Red Cross (ARC), implemented a disaster risk reduction project (DRR) in the Teso sub-region of Eastern  Uganda. Known informally as the “Katakwi DRR Projec...

Article about a model developed in Japan to predict people’s movement patterns after disaster events. The model is based on a study of travel patterns after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 based on GPS data from mobile phones users. The...

Set of language learning resources available from thr Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) in the U.S. which is well regarded for its foreign language instruction.   DLIFLC Basic Language and Culture Acquisition courses http:...

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