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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
Research

The hidden power of community: Unveiling social capital’s role in Australia’s disaster resilience

06 Mar 2025
Social capital – the social ties and connections between people and communities – is a crucial component of disaster resilience. But evidence that demonstrates the economic benefit of investing in social capital has been anecdotal and primari...
Research, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Research

Understanding Barriers to Early Warning Messages for People Living with Non-Communicable Diseases in Nepal

04 Mar 2025
About this Paper This study explores the challenges that people living with non-communicable diseases (PLWNCDs) face in accessing early warning messages (EWMs) during disasters in Nepal, focusing on flood-prone districts of Kanchanpur and Kailali. Fi...
Research, Community Engagement and Accountability, Early Warning Systems, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Guidance material, Report

Pre-Financing Anticipatory Action: A Practical Guide for National Societies

28 Feb 2025
Anticipatory action is expanding and being mainstreamed across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. As National Societies add more Early Action Protocols (EAPs) and scale up their anticipatory action programming, developing an anticipatory action pre...
Guidance material, Report, Anticipatory action, Disaster Risk Financing

Double Jeopardy: Addressing compound flood and heatwave events

20 Feb 2025
Compound events, such as floods and heatwaves occurring in close succession or simultaneously, can interact in a way that creates more severe outcomes than if they occurred both individually, as multiple stressors can exceed the coping capacity of a ...
Flood, Heat Wave, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
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
Case Study

The Role of the Algerian Red Crescent in Crisis Management and Disaster Response: A Case Study of Social Assistance and Flood Interventions in Naâma and Béchar

03 Feb 2025
  The Role of the Algerian Red Crescent in Crisis Management and Disaster Response: A Case Study of Social Assistance and Flood Interventions in Naâma and Béchar “The Algerian Red Crescent (ARC) has played an increasingly significant rol...
Case Study, Flood
Policy and Strategy, Report

Catalysing Business Engagement in Early Warning Systems

31 Jan 2025
Produced in partnership with the World Meteorological Organization and the Australian National University, this white paper calls for urgent action to strengthen collaboration, spark innovation and safeguard communities and economies from escalating ...
Policy and Strategy, Report, Early Warning Systems
Research

Factors Impeding Comprehension and Inclusion of Early Warning Messages in Kolwa East Ward, Kisumu County, Kenya

22 Jan 2025
About this Paper This study explores the factors hindering the comprehension, accessibility, and inclusivity of early warning messages (EWM) in Kolwa East Ward, Kisumu County, Kenya. Despite the vital role of early warning systems (EWS) in reducing f...
Research, Community Engagement and Accountability, Early Warning Systems
Research

Evaluating Nature-based Solutions as urban resilience and climate adaptation tools: A meta-analysis of their benefits on heatwaves and floods

21 Jan 2025
Extreme weather events driven by climate change threaten the resilience of urban structures and urban dwellers. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are an effective tool to reduce urban vulnerability to climate risks and, at the same time, develop more live...
Research, Climate Change Adaptation, Nature-based solutions, Urban Resilience

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