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Adapting to an Urban World Phase II (2017) Assessment Design in Urban Areas – Expert Consultations

09 May 2017
Managing urban areas is one of the major development challenges of the 21st century. While the increasing attention to the urban food insecure is evident, effective information gathering guiding humanitarian response and targeting remain a challenge ...
Report, Livelihoods and Food Security, Risk Assessment, Urban Resilience
Report

Social and Behavior Change Communication for Emergency Preparedness

09 May 2017
During emergencies, coordinated, clear and credible communication aids in minimizing resulting health, social and economic costs. However, the uncertainty that characterizes emergencies typically fuels fear and panic among communities, and spreads mi...
Report, Communication As Aid, Community Engagement and Accountability
Report

Strengthening the context of people in need of care and/or help – the project KOPHIS

02 May 2017
The KOPHIS Project aims to strengthen the context of care and help dependencies in disasters. It elaborates the linking of care infrastructure, involved authorities and organizations as well as civil society networks, and thus raise the resilience of...
Report, Public Awareness and Public Education, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience
Assessment or evaluation, Research

Enacting Humanitarian Culture: How Technical Communication Facilitates Successful Humanitarian Work

25 Apr 2017
Purpose: Technical communicators should look beyond for-profit industry to develop a fuller understanding of how technical communication can support, enable, and constitute successful work practices. To illustrate, we report a subset of findings r...
Assessment or evaluation, Research, Communication As Aid
Guidance material

CAP (Common Alerting Protocol)

20 Apr 2017
Online resources relevant to the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), as selected by the author (Eliot Christian). An international standard (ITU Recommendation X.1303), CAP defines a kind of “standard form”, with fill-in boxes and check boxes...
Guidance material, Early Warning Systems
Guidance material, Research

Inclusive community resilience: empowering communities for resilience

20 Apr 2017
Through the Inclusive Community Resilience (ICR) initiative, GFDRR taps into grassroots expertise in disaster risk management and promotes scalable models that engage directly with communities, making them equal partners with governments. In the even...
Guidance material, Research, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Risk Assessment
Assessment or evaluation

Resilience Radar User Manual. A practical tool to measure community resilience

19 Apr 2017
How do you measure ‘resilience’? There has been much debate both on definitions and on measurements, but arguably little practice: Few humanitarian and development projects take a systematic approach to assessing the multiple dimensions o...
Assessment or evaluation, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Report

Resilient Child, Mali

14 Apr 2017
Application of a resilience analytical framework to child resilience in Mail.
Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Report

L’Enfant Resilient: Mali

14 Apr 2017
Application dans un cadre analytique resilience de l’enfant au Mali.
Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Assessment or evaluation, Report

What Practices Are Used to Identify and Prioritize Vulnerable Populations Affected by Urban Humanitarian Emergencies?

10 Apr 2017
Individuals and organizations responding to humanitarian crises recognize the need to improve urban emergency response and preparedness – including the need to devise better methods for assessing vulnerability within urban populations. This system...
Assessment or evaluation, Report, Post-Disaster Recovery, Urban Resilience

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