Sawyer Baker
sawyerkbaker@gmail.com
Sawyer Baker is the Program Officer for the Global Disaster Preparedness Center, which is a reference center co-hosted by the American Red Cross and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Since joining the GDPC in November 2014, Sawyer has worked at the IFRC Secretariat in Geneva as staff-on-loan and has presented at various conferences on how the Center has been able to scale globally and localize disaster preparedness programming. She is currently supporting the Center’s newest flagship program, the Business Preparedness Initiative, which aims to save lives, protect livelihoods, and shorten recovery time by providing small businesses with an adaptable suite of preparedness tools and services.
Before coming to the American Red Cross, Sawyer interned at the DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, Pathways to Housing DC, and was a Red Cross volunteer. She received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Political Science from Iowa State University, where she also served as an ex-officio member of the Ames City Council. Sawyer holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from The George Washington University.
Training material
This training guide supports a one-day training workshop based on the handbook of the same name. It is aimed at professionals and volunteers who are interested in planning psychosocial activities that include persons with disabilities. The main goal...
Training material
Caring for Volunteers: Training Manual complements Caring for Volunteers: A Psychosocial Support Toolkit, which focuses on the well-being of volunteers in situations of crisis or catastrophe. The goal of the two-day training is to better train and ...
Training material
Staff and volunteers across the globe provide important psychosocial support every day. Not only in response to disasters, armed conflicts and mass shootings, but also in social programmes for slum-dwellers, with victims of violence or accidents, wit...
Training material
This handbook is aimed at professionals and volunteers who work with persons with disabilities. The concept of empowerment is central to the whole approach presented in this handbook. Empowerment is defined as a process of strengthening, whereby indi...
Video
A changing climate and rapidly growing exposure to disaster risk presents the world with an unprecedented challenge. For developing countries, both less able to cope with the impact and more likely to be affected, the challenge is particularly severe...
Other type of resource
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: 2015-2030 was adopted on March 18 at the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. The United Nations General Assembly Resolution adopted in 2013 (68/211) on International Strategy for Di...
Training material
MOVING TOGETHER: Promoting psychosocial well-being through sport and physical activity is a handbook for experts and practitioners in sociology, psychology, social work, sport and physical education to enable them to deliver psychosocial support prog...
Research
This publication captures the findings of a study on flood early warning systems in Nepal that assessed the institutional arrangements, key stakeholders, legal provisions, coordination and linkage mechanisms, and four key elements of early warning sy...
Report, Video
The 2014 World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme that looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters and risk influence culture. The report asks, for example, what should be done wh...