Global Disaster Preparedness Center
gdpc@redcross.org
Training material
![Just In Time Disaster Training – Library](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
An on-line video library developed by the Disaster Resistant Communities Group to provide a single, easy to search source in which individuals, agencies and organizations can access Just In Time Disaster Training videos. The library hosts more than 5...
![Ready When the Time Comes](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Overview of American Red Cross program to tap into the corporate sector’s expertise by training employees from partnering corporations and mobilizing them as a community-based volunteer force when disaster strikes. Ready When the Time Comes htt...
Guidance material
Awareness material
![Tinoni e companhia](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Site designed for children 5 to 12 years old to learn about child safety in a playful and interactive way. The site also provides parents and educators with educational information and instruments that may help the transmission of contents in these a...
Report
![Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction Study Lessons Learned from the Tsunami Operation CBDRR Programmes](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
In November 2010, the IFRC commissioned Arup International Development (Arup ID) to undertake a study of its CBDRR programmes in order to identify and document lessons learned in implementing at scale CBDRR projects to strengthen community safety and...
Report
![Responding to urban disasters: Learning from previous relief and recovery operations (ALNAP, 2012)](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This 2012 ALNAP paper on urban lessons was written by David Sanderson, Paul Knox-Clarke and Leah Campbell and builds off a prior 2009 study written by Ian O’Donnell, Kristin Smart and Ben Ramalingam. It offers lessons pertaining to effecti...
Report
![Humanitarian Action in Drought Related Emergencies](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The paper offers insight and recommendations around preparing for and coping with drought as a recurrent and natural hazard in many parts of the world. It largely focuses on the Africa context, and suggests ways to improve effectiveness of humanitar...
Report
![Hyogo Framework for Action Midterm Review](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The Hyogo Framework for Action Midterm review considers progress toward the key components of the HFA framework of 2005, where critical gaps were identified to serve as the basis of a framework designed to promote “reduction of disaster losses ...
Case Study
![Albania – Legislation and disaster risk reduction at the community level](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Study of the legislative framework for disaster risk management in Albania. IFRC. Case study summary – Albania http://www.ifrc.org/PageFiles/86599/Albania.pdf