31 Oct 2013
Report from a workshop on scaling up urban and community resilience held by the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) in March 2014. The workshop brought together practitioners from American Red Cross chapters and national and internation progr...
Tags: Report, House Fire, Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods
30 Dec 2014
The Global Water and Sanitation Initiative (GWSI) outlines a common approach among National Societies to establish larger-scale, longer-term sustainable water and sanitation programmes to contribute more effectively in meeting the MDG’s. The GW...
Tags: Other type of resource, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
28 Apr 2015
This paper aims to provide a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes. It concentrates on issues of particular relevance in earthquakes. The paper assumes that readers are already familiar with the more g...
Tags: Other type of resource, Earthquake, Post-Disaster Recovery