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The New Urban Agenda

02 Nov 2016
The New Urban Agenda is the 20-year global blueprint adopted by United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development or Habitat III, which closed in Quito, Ecuador, on October 20. The New Urban Agenda envisions an urban paradigm shi...
Other type of resource, Urban Resilience
Report

Getting to Europe the ‘WhatsApp’ way

25 Oct 2016
RMMS/Danish Refugee Council (2016): Getting to Europe the ‘WhatsApp’ way.The use of ICT in contemporary mixed migration flows to Europe. The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and social media became a key characteristic ...
Report
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RCRC Position Paper for the Habitat III Conference

20 Oct 2016
Focuses on humanitarian crisis and cities and how the Movement’s work links up to the New Urban Agenda
Other type of resource, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Resilience Academy

18 Oct 2016
The Rockefeller Foundation has been working with HR&A Associates to develop a workshop-based Resilience Academy that they have offered to local governments in the United States. The Academy brings together mulit-disciplinary teams of stakeholder...
Guidance material, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience
Report

World Disaster Report 2016

17 Oct 2016
The WDR 2016 focuses on Resilience: Saving lives today, investing for tomorrow
Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Other type of resource

Coalition-building in Coastal Cities

13 Oct 2016
The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) in collaboration with the IFRC and American Red Cross has received an award from USAID/OFDA to design and test a set of tools and services to assist Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) National Societies and t...
Other type of resource, Urban Resilience
Case Study

Bringing Collaborative Governance in Community Early Warning System for Flood Risk Reduction

10 Oct 2016
Published 23 March 2015 The collaboration of government, local government, and community is key to flood early warning systems. The Program for Reduction of Vulnerability to Floods in Thailand (ADPC and USAID) implemented various activities under ...
Case Study, Early Warning Systems, Flood
Case Study

Building flood preparedness in community: Implementing early warning systems in Ayutthaya (Thailand)

09 Oct 2016
Published: 23 March 2015 Ayutthaya, Thailand – This case study concerns the Program for Reduction of Vulnerability to Floods in Thailand implemented by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) in collaboration with the Department of Disast...
Case Study, Early Warning Systems
Report

2016 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Workshop Report

08 Oct 2016
Held in Bangkok on August 23–24, 2016, this workshop brought together 81 participants from 17 countries to share technical experiences with CAP-enabled alerting systems. Co-hosted by the Asian Institute of Technology and Sahana Software Foundation,...
Report, Early Warning Systems
Research

Concern Disaster Risk Reduction – Urban Contexts

29 Sep 2016
This publication is a synthesis of lessons from more than a decade of Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming in urban geographic contexts. Based on research in Port au Prince, Haiti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nairobi, Kenya; and Fre...
Research, Risk Assessment, Urban Resilience

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