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Herramientas: Buenas Prácticas

23 May 2017
Se incluye herramientas para elaborar las fichas de buenas prácticas. El paquete se compone de: 1. Nota Conceptual sobre el Banco de Soluciones DNS y las Buenas Prácticas. (REFERENCIA) 2. Plantilla evaluación de la Buena Práctica (excel): Esta ...
Case Study, Guidance material
Other type of resource

Compromiso de Houston

19 May 2017
En el Marco de la Conferencia Interamericana, las Sociedades Nacionales de la Cruz Roja de América, reunidas en Houston, Estados Unidos de América, del 27 al 30 de marzo de 2015, con el objetivo de incrementar, medir y mostrar el impacto de nuestro...
Other type of resource
Assessment or evaluation

Originating Urban Climate Change Adaptation Planning Guidepost: Urban Landscape Sustainability Framework (ULSF), Quezon City, Philippines

13 May 2017
The Quezon City (QC) in the Philippines is developing assertively and replacing vegetation by buildings,roads, gardens and parks, one of the effects of urbanization that exacerbates the formation of Urban heat Islands (UHI) and changes the microclima...
Assessment or evaluation, Climate Change Adaptation
Research

Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG) Guiding principles on disaster risk reduction and climate change: East and Horn of Africa

11 May 2017
This study aims to provide useful recommendations on how to harmonize and boost up the progress that the humanitarian and development actors are trying to achieve in strengthening disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation among vulnerable...
Research, Early Warning Systems, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Report

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

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