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The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the disaster risk reduction and management systems and its challenges in the countries of South Asia Region. All the member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) ...
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Early warning systems (EWS) are recognized in both the Hyogo Framework for Disaster Reduction (2005-2015) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) as an important element of disaster risk reduction and hence to the achievement...
Research
Vulnerability reduction and resilience building of communities are central concepts in recent policy debates. Although there are fundamental linkages, and complementarities exist between the two concepts, recent policy and programming has focused mor...
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The Red Cross Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) seeks to conduct a community impact study of The Pillowcase Project– a youth preparedness program. The GDPC is interested in examining learning from the informal educational activities ac...
Report
The North American Humanitarian Response Summit (NAHRS) project represents a unique effort to improve the effectiveness of cross-border response to a potential catastrophic disaster in North America. NAHRS is implemented by the American Red Cross in ...
Guidance material
These Principles and Rules recognize the importance of strengthening organizational, coordination and delivery capacities of National Societies, to respond to the increasing number and complexity of disasters and the growing number of vulnerable ...
Guidance material
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in collaboration with Members of the Global Disaster Preparedness Center, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and Red Cross Climate Center (RCCC) presented the MIT-Human...
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A Letter to all WMO Members from WMO Secretariat announcing the 2018 CAP Implementation Workshop.
Report
This one-day Workshop was held 2 November, 2018, in Hong Kong, China, hosted by Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) at the HKO facility. The Workshop focused on the Filtered Alert Hub software, a cloud-based system for aggregating alerts in the format of the...
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This one-day Workshop will be held 2 November, 2018, in Hong Kong, China, hosted by Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) at the HKO facility. The Workshop focuses on the Filtered Alert Hub software, a cloud-based system for aggregating alerts in the format of...