Global Disaster Preparedness Center
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![Building Urban Resilience](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Reference document prepared for East Asia and Pacific which aims to increase the resilience of cities to disasters and climate change impacts by promoting a risk-based approach in public investment decision-making process. Building Urban Resilience h...
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![How to make cities more resilient: a handbook for local government leaders](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
A handbook to provide “mayors, governors, councillors and other local government leaders with a generic framework for risk reduction and points to good practices and tools that are already being applied in different cities for that purpose.R...
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![Learning from the City: British Red Cross Urban Learning Project Scoping Study](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
A study drawing lessons and insights from five British Red Cross disaster management programs in urban settings: Haiti (Port-au-Prince), Uganda (Kampala and other cities), Djibouti (Djibouti-ville), Mongolia (Ulaanbataar) and Nepal (Kathmandu). Learn...
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![Sustainable Reconstruction in Urban Areas: A Handbook](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This handbook on sustainable reconstruction in urban areas seeks to unpack the problems that many organisations are confronted with in urban reconstruction and provide step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement housing reconstruction progra...
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![Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing after Natural Disasters](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
A handbook to assist policy makers and project managers engaged in large-scale post-disaster reconstruction programs make decisions about how to reconstruct housing and communities after natural disasters. Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handboo...
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![Health Risk Management in a changing climate](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Report of a Red Cross Red Crescent project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, that has “explored ways of integrating climate with health programming in Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania and Vietnam, approaching the issue from three angles: the pri...
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![Emerging Challenges for Early Warning Systems in context of Climate Change and Urbanization](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The paper analyses the opportunities and implications for early earning systems on the background of a changing climate and urban growth. Emerging Challenges for Early Warning Systems in context of Climate Change and Urbanization http://www.dkkv.org/...
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![Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (LDRRMF)](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
LDRRMF – The Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (LDRRMF) is a unique program in the Philippines that encourages local government investment in disaster risk reduction. The LDRRMF builds on a long-standing directive from the national ...