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Call for Consultancy: Urban Heat Action Plan Evaluation

06 May 2025
Increasing heat risks combined with rapid urbanization trends, especially in Africa and Southeast Asia, and aging population trends, for example in Europe, result in a need to scale action to prevent impacts on lives, health, and wellbeing. Recognizi...
Other type of resource, Urban Resilience
Report

Growing Resilience: Unlocking the Potential of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

21 Apr 2025
This report analyzed nearly 300 nature-based solutions (NBS) projects across sub-Saharan Africa from 2012 to 2023. It offers a comprehensive overview of NBS in the region: what climate resilience objectives projects are addressing, where projects are...
Report, Nature-based solutions
Research

Assessment of Early Action for Flood Protection in Makhuwira: Understanding Last-Mile Community Response to Flood Warning in Chikwawa District

05 Feb 2025
About this Paper Flooding remains a major threat to last-mile communities in Malawi, particularly in Makhuwira, Chikwawa District, where poverty and limited resources constrain disaster preparedness. This study investigates the effectiveness of early...
Research, Anticipatory action, Early Warning Systems
Report

Under the weather: Stories from communities on the front lines of climate and health adaptation

13 Dec 2024
The health impacts of climate change are happening now. This report tells the stories of communities in three countries across Africa. Burkina Faso, Malawi and Somalia were chosen because they are among the African countries most vulnerable to climat...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Assessment or evaluation, Guidance material, Policy and Strategy, Report, Research

From Informality to Impact – The Untapped Potential of Scaling Urban Resilience Innovation in Informality

05 Dec 2024
From Informality to Impact – The Untapped Potential of Scaling Urban Resilience Innovation in Informality Policy and Investment Briefing Note 9 November 2024 Currently only 1.2% of urban climate investments flow to climate change adaptation a...
Assessment or evaluation, Guidance material, Policy and Strategy, Report, Research, Anticipatory action, Business Preparedness, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Cash, Climate Change Adaptation, Fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV), Hazard, Urban Resilience
Awareness material, Guidance material, Report

Effective emergency preparedness for flooding and drought: A guide for cities

05 Dec 2024
Effective emergency preparedness for flooding and drought: A guide for cities Implementation Guides – October 2024 DARAJA Case Study, pp. 25-26 Climate-related hazards are growing in intensity and frequency, causing significant loss and damage ...
Awareness material, Guidance material, Report, Early Warning Systems, Flood, Heat Wave, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience
Guidance material, Report, Research

Urban planning at the heart of increasingly severe East African flood impacts in a warming world

05 Dec 2024
Urban planning at the heart of increasingly severe East African flood impacts in a warming world 23 May, 2024 DARAJA / Resurgence mention on pp.18-19 of the Full Study. The 2024 long rains in East Africa were exceptionally heavy towards the end of Ma...
Guidance material, Report, Research, Anticipatory action, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Early Warning Systems, Flood, Hazard, Infrastructure and Services, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience
Research

Narrative Report: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Flood Early Warnings and Early Action among local communities in Zomba and Phalombe, Malawi

04 Dec 2024
Compounded by climate change, Malawi has been a victim of repetitive hydro-meteorological disasters, notably floods and droughts, triggering widespread destruction and health risks in the country. Dry spells have caused multiple seasons of crop failu...
Research, Anticipatory action, Early Warning Systems
Assessment or evaluation, Research

Comparative Study in the Early Warnings and Early Actions before Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Southern Malawi in areas with and without previous Anticipatory Action programming Quantitative Data Findings and Analysis

04 Dec 2024
Malawi Red Cross Society (MRCS) and Danish Red Cross (DRC) conducted a comparative study to assess whether previous AA programming increases the chances of hearing, believing, and acting upon early warnings. The study was conducted in response to Tro...
Assessment or evaluation, Research, Anticipatory action, Early Warning Systems
Guidance material, Manual, Training material

Guide Methodologique Sensibilisation et Education à la RRC – PEID

03 Dec 2024
Ce guide méthodologique a été élaboré et conçu afin d’accompagner les praticiens du Mouvement de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge – plus spécifiquement les chefs et coordinateurs de projets et les volontaires – qui travaillen...
Guidance material, Manual, Training material, Disaster Preparedness Games, Public Awareness and Public Education, Youth Disaster Preparedness

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