Global Disaster Preparedness Center
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Guidance material
The Rockefeller Foundation has been working with HR&A Associates to develop a workshop-based Resilience Academy that they have offered to local governments in the United States. The Academy brings together mulit-disciplinary teams of stakeholder...
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The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) in collaboration with the IFRC and American Red Cross has received an award from USAID/OFDA to design and test a set of tools and services to assist Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) National Societies and t...
Guidance material
On August 26, 2016, the IFRC and American Red Cross hosted a showcase and workshop in support of the 1 Billion Coalition for Resilience (1BC) and invited other actors to learn about and consider joining this initiative to bring a greater focus on c...
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
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
This resource documents a user experience (UX) discovery process undertaken by Practical Action and Aptivate to design the Flood Solutions Catalogue, a knowledge-sharing platform developed under the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance. The initiative ai...
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
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...
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...