This evaluation assesses the impact of beneficiary communication activities conducted during the Haiti Earthquake Operation from January 2010 onward. Drawing on 626 individual interviews, 19 focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and fiel...

This IFRC briefing note provides an overview of beneficiary communications as a strategic approach to connecting humanitarian programming with affected populations. It defines beneficiary communications as a cross-cutting function that spans the full...

This IFRC lessons learned report documents the experiences and recommendations emerging from beneficiary communication and accountability (BCA) programmes across three major disaster operations: the 2004 Asian tsunami response in Aceh, Indonesia; the...

Beneficiary communication was one of the most important tools directly after the earthquake that shook Haiti at a magnitude of 7.0 Mw on 12 January 2010. It allowed vulnerable communities to receive information that they needed most, as quickly and a...

An article by Amir Murtaza published by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the interests and capabilities of children to paly a role in decision-making related to development plans for their schools, playgrounds, and streets. In the last ten years,...

The Sendai Report argues that the practice of disaster risk management (DRM) is a defining characteristic of resilient societies, and should therefore be integrated– or ‘mainstreamed’–into all aspects of development. The report outlines how t...

Este recurso documenta un innovador esquema de seguro agrícola basado en índices, desarrollado y piloteado por la alianza PROFIN-PROSUCO-F-UNAPA en cuatro municipios del Altiplano Norte de Bolivia — Patacamaya, Tiwanaku, Batallas y Achacachi — ...

The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) is a compulsory public-private earthquake insurance scheme established in 2000 in response to the devastating 1999 Marmara earthquake, which killed 15,000 people and placed enormous fiscal strain on the T...

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) is the world’s first multi-country, multi-peril catastrophe risk pool, owned and operated by Caribbean governments. Launched in 2007 in response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Iv...