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World Cities Report 2016: Urbanization and Development: Emerging Futures

14 Jun 2016
Published by UNHABITAT, this year’s World Cities Report presents a number of issues that this New Urban Agenda should address. United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development — known as Habitat III — in Quito, Ecuador, ...
Report, Urban Resilience
Video

Keeping Heritages Intact

13 Jun 2016
This video is part of the series, ‘Staying Prepared – Lessons from 2015 Nepal Earthquakes.’ These videos capture experiences and lessons learned from different communities which were affected by the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes. This firs...
Video, Earthquake
Video

Ready to Go

13 Jun 2016
This video is part of the series, ‘Staying Prepared – Lessons from 2015 Nepal Earthquakes.’ These videos capture experiences and lessons learned from different communities which were affected by the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes. This seco...
Video, Earthquake
Video

Safe in the Open

13 Jun 2016
This video is part of the series, ‘Staying Prepared – Lessons from 2015 Nepal Earthquakes.’ These videos capture experiences and lessons learned from different communities which were affected by the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes. This thir...
Video, Earthquake
Research

Preparing for disaster: preparedness in a flood and cyclone prone community

07 Jun 2016
Research suggests that the perception of a threat, high levels of self-efficacy, and high levels of social connectedness and trust may facilitate engagement in preparatory behaviours for severe weather events. To identify the psychosocial determinant...
Research, Flood, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone
Awareness material

143 campaign – Philippines

28 May 2016
Red Cross 143 is a local organiziang campaing sponsored by the Philippine Red Cross to increase community engagement at the barangay (smallest district) level in the Philippines. Red Cross 143 encourages each brangagy to establish a group of communit...
Awareness material, Community Engagement and Accountability
Awareness material

Find the Volunteer Inside You (2011 Campaign)

28 May 2016
During 2010, the IFRC conducted a survey to establish the economic and social value of Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers and published a report on the findings, entitled The Value of Volunteers in January 2011. The study was based on rigorous met...
Awareness material
Research

Assessing economic impacts of hosting refugees: conceptual, methodological and ethical gaps

27 May 2016
This paper from the Refugees Studies Centre, University of Oxford explores a variety of approaches used to assess and measure the economic impact of refugees on their host communities and states and highlights some alternative approaches to understan...
Research, Migration
Game

Impossible Choices

27 May 2016
Basically a humanitarian version of the would you rather … game. Simple concept, but strong story line. Developed by UNHCR, WFP and other partners to engage stakeholders in the lead-up to the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016. Source: United Na...
Game
Awareness material

‘Data Sculpture’ on flood risks

26 May 2016
The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre has developed a ‘Data Sculpture’ that they exhibited at the Understanding Risk Forum held in Venice in May 2016. The sculpture shows the history of water volume flows along the Mono river in Togo ...
Awareness material, Early Warning Systems, Public Awareness and Public Education
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