Global Disaster Preparedness Center
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Guidance material
The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is requesting proposals for a new consultancy on City-wide Assessment for Community Resilience. Working in collaboration with the IFRC and American Red Cross, the GDPC has received an award from USAID/OF...
Guidance material
Short posting by Timothy Riecker that outlines a set of simple guidelines for maximizing the value of injects in disaster management simulations and drills. Five Guidelines for Creating Effective Disaster Exercise Injects https://www.linkedin.com/pul...
Guidance material
An article by Cynthia Renaud, police chief in Folsom, California, on how to strengthen the National Incident Management System (NIMS) by integrating solutions for managing complexity. The article explores the dynamics of the initial edge-of-chaos th...
Case Study
An overview of the people-centered design process undertaken by Practical Action in the development of a flood solutions catalgoue under the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance. UX Discovery – Practical Action UX Discovery – Practical Action
Guidance material
In 2010, the IFRC conducted a survey to establish the economic and social value of Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers and published a report on the findings, entitled The Value of Volunteers in January 2011. The study was based on rigorous methodo...
Awareness material
Red Cross 143 is a local organiziang campaing sponsored by the Philippine Red Cross to increase community engagement at the barangay (smallest district) level in the Philippines. Red Cross 143 encourages each brangagy to establish a group of communit...
Awareness material
During 2010, the IFRC conducted a survey to establish the economic and social value of Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers and published a report on the findings, entitled The Value of Volunteers in January 2011. The study was based on rigorous met...
Research
This research report by the University of Oxford Refugees Studies Centre challenges the current model of donor state-led assistance, drawing on ground-breaking new research on the economic life of refugees in Uganda. By attempting to understand the e...
Research
This paper from the Refugees Studies Centre, University of Oxford explores a variety of approaches used to assess and measure the economic impact of refugees on their host communities and states and highlights some alternative approaches to understan...