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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

CAP Workshop 2016 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
Report

Children, young people and flooding: Recovery and resilience

26 Sep 2016
Children, young people and flooding: Recovery and resilience Research with flood-affected children reveals serious impacts on well-being but also a desire to take on a role in flood risk management. Lancaster University researchers found that factors...
Report, Flood, Post-Disaster Recovery, Youth Disaster Preparedness
Other type of resource

Resilient Business for Resilient Nations and Communities

23 Sep 2016
Building resilience to disasters is increasingly being recognized as a priority area in order to protect hard-earned development gains in the Asia-Pacific region. The private sector alone is estimated to hold 70 to 85 per cent of the investment in...
Other type of resource
Report

Practitioners Perspective on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Building in Asia

15 Sep 2016
This report on “Risk Reduction and Resilience in Asia: Unpacking the post 2015 Agenda” reflects the views, commitments and interests shown by individual practitioners’ who attended the 8th Practitioner Workshop in Bangkok during 23-25 Novemb...
Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience
Report

Comparative Review of The Pillowcase Project

14 Sep 2016
This report presents key insights and findings from a Comparative Review of The Pillowcase Project. The study was led by Sustainability Frontiers and funded by the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC). Beginning in January 2016, the researc...
Report, Youth Disaster Preparedness

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