08 Sep 2020
This is IFRC guidance on the use of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. These recommendations are based on the WHO guidelines on epidemic and pandemic-prone acute respiratory infections in health care, updated systematic review of randomized con...
Tags: Guidance material, COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
24 Mar 2015
This educational comic for children and youth focuses on drought, issued as part of a series of A Road to Resilience in Southeast Asia comics covering 7 hazards (drought, earthquake, fire, flood, hygiene promotion, tsunami, typhoon and cyclones). The...
Tags: Awareness material
12 Jun 2015
As the global costs of disasters continue to rise, a new global framework for disaster risk reduction was negotiated at a high-level conference in Sendai, Japan in March 2015. Newfound global attention to the topic increased the difficulty of negotia...
Tags: Assessment or evaluation, Urban Preparedness