Global Disaster Preparedness Center
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Guidance material
Les Notes d’orientation pour la construction d’écoles plus sûres présentent un cadre de principes directeurs et de mesures générales pour élaborer un plan spécifique permettant de remédier à cette grave brèche qui empêche la réalisat...
Guidance material
Panduan tentang Konstruksi Sekolah Yang Lebih Aman (the Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction) menyajikan kerangka prinsip-prinsip panduan dan langkah umum untuk mengembangkan suatu rencana yang context-specifi c untuk mengisi celah kritis dal...
Guidance material
تقدم الملاحظات الإرشادية لبناء مدارس أكثر أمانا ٬ إطار عمل من المبادئ الإرشادية والتطورات العامة لوضع خطة محددة السياق للتطرق لهذه الثغ...
Awareness material
This report considers the extent to which Red Cross Red Crescent volunteer action is strengthening community resilience in East Africa, focusing specifically on the unique role of volunteers, and emphasizing the role of National Societies as respecte...
Report
On June 27–28, 2012, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the American Red Cross (Red Cross) hosted a workshop to discuss how to improve preparedness messaging to encourage the public to prepare themselves and their families for a dis...
Research
Advances our understanding of the complexities of motivating the public to prepare by examining trend data on personal preparedness behaviors and by providing findings on several new areas of analysis: Exploring the relationship between preparedness ...
Guidance material
IFRC takes a look at resilience and the inherent link between humanitarian action and long-term development in this discussion paper. It focuses on sustainability and offers an array of community level examples that are useful references. IFRC R...
Case Study
This document describes some of the ways that National Societies in the Asia-Pacific region have been contributing to the implementation of the five priorities of the Hyogo Framework Action, grouped according to the main activities under each priori...
In 2000 and 2001, severe floods struck large areas of Mozambique. The devastating impact of the flooding, and the relative lack of disaster preparedness among affected communities, provided the impetus and the opportunity for the Mozambique Red C...