Aynur Kadihasanoglu
aynur.kadihasanoglu@redcross.org
Geneva,
I work at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center and the American Red Cross, Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) as the Senior Urban Specialist. Focus of my work is strengthening local capacities through close collaboration with global partners and field teams and developing innovative approaches, tools and methodologies aimed at scaling up impact in urban settings. Some examples of work include starting and leading the Urban Collaboration Platform of IFRC (2015-21), leading the Coastal Cities and Coalition Program (2017-21) and managing the Extreme Heat Small grants program of the GDPC and CC (2022). My motivation is to use my educational background in city and regional planning, combined with earlier work in the development arena with the UN and the World Bank to help RCRC National Societies be confident and skilled in understanding and taking action against the compounding risks that the urban communities are facing.
![Learning from Coalition Building in Cities](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) has developed and tested tools and services to help Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies to increase city-wide collaboration around climate-smart resilience and coastal risk reduction. The pr...
Report
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In the six years since the creation of 100 Resilient Cities, more than 70 cities have published Resilience Strategies containing over 3,000 initiatives. To date, more than US$25 billion has been catalyzed by 100RC member cities toward the resilience...
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![RCRC Urban Collaboration Workshop, Beirut Lebanon](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Since 2015, the Federation Secretariat and American Red Cross (ARC) have been co-leading the Urban Collaboration Platform (UCP), with strong support from several National Societies (NSs), International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Global Disaster P...
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![Humanitarian response in urban contexts](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Published by ODI/ALNAP, this Good Practice Review is structured into four chapters. Chapter 1, on context, sets the scene. It describes ways of seeing the city (there are many; this section presents three). The chapter then discusses four particular...
Video
![City coalition building in Ternate and Semerang, Indonesia](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This video show case the process of city resilience coalition building process initiated by PMI (Indonesia Red Cross) and led by the local governments of cities of Ternate and Semerang in Indonesia.
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![Mass Displacement Host Cities and Urban Systems](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This publication from ARUP aims to help host cities to further understand and improve their capacity to effectively manage rapid arrivals from displacement events by: Exploring what works in different contexts (initiatives that respond to the challe...
Guidance material
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LAS TRADUCCIONES AL ESPAÑOL DE LOS JUEGOS DE HERRAMIENTAS ESTÁN AQUÍ Description This toolkit offers a methodology to co-design viable, inclusive and sustainable community resilience solutions, applying Human Centred Design (HCD). HDC is a creat...
Guidance material
![Urban Profiling For Better Responses To Humanitarian Crises](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This document is part of a series of knowledge products produced through the Global Alliance for Urban Crises (GAUC) Working Groups, with financial support from EU Humanitarian Aid. The series are key steps in driving an agenda of change, when it com...
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![Economic Losses, Poverty and Disasters 1998-2017](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This report published by the UNISDR gives an excellent analysis of economic lossess due to disasters. Between 1998 and 2017 climate-related and geophysical disasters killed 1.3 million people and left a further 4.4 billion injured, homeless, displace...