21 Jul 2015
This reports highlights the findings from a research project conducted by the University of Peradeniya in response to the ‘Preparedness and Resilience Research’ small grants program (Phase I) implemented by Response 2 Resilience Institu...
Tags: Report, Research
31 Mar 2015
This report was commissioned by the United States Institute of Peace’s Center of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding and Haiti Working Group. It examines the role of Ushahidi, a crisis-mapping platform, in the disaster relief effo...
Tags: Report, Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, Early Warning Systems, Mobile Technology
25 Sep 2020
This scoping study, undertaken from October to December 2019, aims to inform priorities and actions of the German Red Cross (GRC) in relation to humanitarian assistance in the urban context. In doing so, the scoping study took stock of existing liter...
Tags: Awareness material, Report, Research, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Crisis Mapping, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Preparedness, Urban Risk Reduction