20 Feb 2015
This video highlights the upgrade and adoption of cyclone-proof building norms for public buildings, one of the key components of GFDRR’s disaster risk mitigation program in Madagascar. The program of assistance extended through the GFDDR suppo...
Tags: Video, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Infrastructure and Services
04 Aug 2020
Local actors,3 including civil society organisations, government, and the private sector, as well as communities themselves (including displaced communities), are critical in every humanitarian operation, and even more so in the current context that ...
Tags: Guidance material, Communicable Disease
19 May 2015
In Haiti, thousands of people live in anguish, unsure whether their relatives are buried under the rubble or alive and unable to communicate. In the first two weeks following the earthquake, Red Cross tracing teams offered over 2000 phone calls to su...
Tags: Video