Global Disaster Preparedness Center
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Case Study
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
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
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
´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
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...
Report
With support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) brought together more than 50 participants from 16 national societies, as wel...
Report
Report from a workshop on scaling up urban and community resilience held by the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) in March 2014. The workshop brought together practitioners from American Red Cross chapters and national and internation progr...
Other type of resource
The Flagship 4 overview document describes the objectives and expected outcomes from the Flagship program in Nepal. Resources https://preparecenter.org/resources
Guidance material
Since the inception of the 9 minimum characteristics of a disaster resilient community in Nepal, there have been many questions by Government, implementing agencies, researchers, and community members on how to operationalise these characteristics. T...