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...

This peer-reviewed journal article presents a computational framework for predicting and simulating population movements following large-scale natural disasters, developed through analysis of big and heterogeneous data from Japan. Using GPS records f...

USAID CIDI’s 55 Ways to Repurpose a Material Donation 

USAID CIDI’s 100 Fundraising Ideas

USAID CIDI’s Guidelines for Effective Giving

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...

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.

Changing the Game: How Business Innovations Reduce the Impact of Disasters is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s annual disaster case study report, examining how the private sector is becoming an integral part of disaster preparedness, r...