The Red Cross of Viet Nam, with support from the International Federation, the Japanese Red Cross Society and the Danish Red Cross, has planted mangroves along almost all the coastline where natural conditions allow. Local communities carry out the p...

The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is working to assist the Maldives to recover from the destruction caused by the December 2004, Indian Ocean Tsunami. In May 2006, with technical support from the South Asia Regi...

The region around Lake Victoria is prone to disasters such as flooding resulting in homes being washed away and displacement of people, while people who live around the lake and who mainly earn their livelihoods from fishing and farming, suffer from ...

Red Sea State in Sudan suffers regular droughts which have resulted in increased vulnerability of the indigenous nomadic Beja pastoralist community. Activities that were once coping strategies have become part of normal regular patterns of activity d...

This case study aims to address calls for more rigorous evidence-based research on the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions at the community-level. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFR...

In an effort to further highlight the impact, efficiency and sustainability of DRR interventions, an external evaluation was conducted on the community-based ‘Mangrove Plantation and Disaster Risk Reduction’ (MP/DRR) project in the disaster prone...

This case study provides information on community mitigation and awareness activities undertaken in Central Asia by the Red Crescent Society of Turkmenistan, the Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan and the Red Crescent Society of Uzbekistan.

Since 1995, the PNRC has broadened its approach towards more proactive risk reduction. With support from the Danish Red Cross (DRC), PNRC initiated community-based disaster preparedness in five mountain, coastal and urban provinces. Much can be done ...

For many years, the concept of community risk reduction has been a priority in the Red Cross programmes in the Pacific. Some National Societies have, however, been struggling to find an effective way to turn this priority into meaningful community-ba...