08 Dec 2014
ACAPS preliminary Briefing Note on Typhoon Hagupit Category 5 Typhoon Hagupit, locally known as Ruby, made landfall on the evening of 6 December over the town of Dolores in Eastern Samar province (Eastern Philippines). This may be the first of at l...
Tags: Other type of resource, Early Warning Systems, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone
20 Oct 2015
In October 2007, almost three years after the tsunami, the DEC commissioned experts from Arup to carry out a short mission to Aceh to review the post-tsunami reconstruction programme undertaken by DEC Member Agencies. The aim of the mission was to pr...
Tags: Report, Post-Disaster Recovery, Urban Risk Reduction
27 Oct 2014
This report summarizes an 18-month, evidence-based study that sought to understand practitioner information needs by asking the question: What are successful Red Cross/Red Crescent (RCRC) preparedness practitioners already doing that works, and how c...
Tags: Report, Research, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management