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OFB-EZ (Open for Business-EZ)

01 Apr 2019
OFB-EZ (Open for Business-EZ) is a free business continuity tool designed to help even the smallest businesses focus on planning for any type of business interruption, so they can quickly re-open and resume operations following a disaster. With its ...
Guidance material, Business Preparedness, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Report

Heat Waves and Human Health: Emerging Evidence and Experience to Inform Risk Management in a Warming World

11 Mar 2019
This report from the USAID-funded Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments (ATLAS) project examines efforts to better understand and manage the risks of extreme heat on human wellbeing, including the public health burden heat poses and the direc...
Report, Heat Wave, Risk Assessment
Report

Strategies for Designing RCRC Preparedness Messaging in Digital Applications

07 Mar 2019
As Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) societies move forward to deliver digital disaster information and preparedness messaging, the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is asking how best to capitalize on the growing accessibility of digital comm...
Report, Mobile Technology
Report

Community Impact Study of International Youth Preparedness Program – The Pillowcase Project

07 Mar 2019
The Pillowcase Project is a school-based disaster preparedness education program first implemented in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 by American Red Cross volunteers in Louisiana, before being rolled out in 7 countries across the world. Origin...
Report, Youth Disaster Preparedness
Training material

GET-19 Tsunami Exercise Map

20 Feb 2019
Map for GET-19 Tsunami Exercise
Training material, Early Warning Systems
Other type of resource

Consultancy: Blended Learning approaches for First Aid using mobile technology

14 Feb 2019
With the Universal App Program, the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) has created a platform to facilitate the adaptation and localization of mobile applications (apps) with first aid and hazard information to be used in countries across t...
Other type of resource
Guidance material

Urban Profiling For Better Responses To Humanitarian Crises

13 Feb 2019
This document is part of a series of knowledge products produced through the Global Alliance for Urban Crises (GAUC) Working Groups, with financial support from EU Humanitarian Aid. The series are key steps in driving an agenda of change, when it com...
Guidance material, Urban Resilience
Case Study

Winter shelters for rural herder communities

12 Feb 2019
Mongolian Red Cross Society (MRCS) has been implementing a community-based disaster risk reduction project since 2014, with support from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Australian Red Cross. The h...
Case Study, Risk Assessment
Case Study

The Role of Businesses in Community Recovery

11 Feb 2019
Business play a vital role in supporting community recovery following a disaster and maintaining operations during an extreme event is fundamental to community resilience. Businesses that stay open or reopen quickly provide much needed services and e...
Case Study, Business Preparedness, Flood
Case Study

Why Small Businesses Should Invest in Preparedness

11 Feb 2019
Disasters can have profound impacts on businesses. 40% to 60% of small businesses fail to reopen after a disaster. For many businesses, potential impacts from disasters include direct physical impacts from extreme events as well as more indirect impa...
Case Study, Business Preparedness, Flood
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