The Great ShakeOut is a once a year earthquake drill first held in California in 2008 to raise awareness across all segments of the community. Participation has since spread around the globe and an increasing numebr of communities take part every yea...

Case study reviewing curricula changes and retrofitting programs introdcued in Bogotá, Colombia to promote both safe schools and disaster preparedness education in schools. Online version of case study http://www.preventionweb.net/files/7673_CCocaOD...

The US Federal Emergency Management Agency has put together a set of guides to incremental retrofitting strategies for a wide variety of building types. FEMA, 2003. FEMA overview of earthquake safety at work, Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Off...

Official website of the Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) in Bangladesh which was established in 1972 and is operated as a joint intiative of the Government of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society. THe CPP has been credited with brin...

Radio interview that was aired on All India Radio about lessons from the preparedness and response to Cyclone Phailin in India. October 2013.

The Community Based Disaster Preparedness Programme used a pioneering approach of community-based disaster risk reduction, by mobilizing communities to become involved, equipping cyclone shelters and building people’s capacity to respond to a cycl...

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The Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness Initiative (H2P) has created this training package to build skills for community-level preparedness and response in the event of an influenza pandemic. Facilitator guides are available to address two important g...

The best defense to influenza is you. The IFRC has developed resources including a toolkit, posters, videos, e-learning and widgets to inform the population on how best to prevent the spread of influenza. Your Best Defense is You http://www.ifrc.org/...