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Gender Approaches in Climate Compatible Development: Lessons from Kenya

29 Aug 2016
This report examines gender and climate change in relation to efforts to support climate compatible development, a policy goal that aims to integrate and draw synergies between adaptation, mitigation and development. The report’s focus is a case st...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Report

Finding Economic Opportunity in the City

25 Aug 2016
This report looks at International Rescue Committe’s (IRC) experiences in cash assistance and livelihoods programming in Lebanon and Jordan in the context of the Syrian regional response. It explores opportunities and challenges inherent to cas...
Report, Livelihoods and Food Security
Report

Humanitarian Action in Urban Context

25 Aug 2016
A humanitarian response in an urban context must not only meet the immediate needs of affected populations, but also foster recovery and sustainable development in the aftermath of a crisis so that people and the city are safe, healthy, educated, eco...
Report, Urban Resilience
Research

Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction: An African perspective

24 Aug 2016
This paper presents a literature review which highlights the need for more interest to be shown in indigenous knowledge on disaster risk reduction (DRR), especially in the developing country context. The aim is to lead to better strategies which orig...
Research, Urban Resilience
Other type of resource

Catalog of Assessment Methodologies

17 Aug 2016
This document provides an overview of different assessment methodologies. It is not a comprehensive list and only provides a snapshot of commonly used methodlogies.
Other type of resource, Risk Assessment
Awareness material, Guidance material

FICR Centros de Referencia: Catálogo de Productos

04 Aug 2016
Los centros de referencia, que forman parte del Movimiento de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja, le han proporcionado una contribución valiosa a la comunidad humanitaria durante más de 20 años. El primer centro se fundó en 1991 y a partir de ...
Awareness material, Guidance material
Guidance material

Call for Proposals — Consultancy for Developing a City-Wide Assessment for Community Resilience

02 Aug 2016
The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is requesting proposals for a new consultancy on City-wide Assessment for Community Resilience. Working in collaboration with the IFRC and American Red Cross, the GDPC has received an award from USAID/OF...
Guidance material, Risk Assessment
Report

Overview of Forced Migration of South Sudanese into West Nile Region, Northern Uganda

28 Jul 2016
For over 2 decades, Uganda has been a host country for refugees from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo where the majorities are currently settling in the refugee camps of West Nile region and Western Uganda due to the escalating rebell...
Report
Report

Smart Villages and Resilience to Natural Disasters

24 Jul 2016
This report summarises the findings of a workshop on Smart Villages and Resilience to Natural Disasters. Co-hosted by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and the Smart Villages Initiative, the workshop brought together two ...
Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Guidance material

Five Guidelines for Creating Effective Disaster Exercise Injects

12 Jul 2016
Short posting by Timothy Riecker that outlines a set of simple guidelines for maximizing the value of injects in disaster management simulations and drills. Five Guidelines for Creating Effective Disaster Exercise Injects https://www.linkedin.com/pul...
Guidance material

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