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Awareness material, Case Study, Guidance material, Report

Good Practice Review: Disaster Risk Reduction

20 Oct 2015
This Good Practice Review identifies and discusses the principles and practice of disaster risk reduction (DRR), drawing on experiences from around the world. It gives guidance on the main issues that should be taken into consideration when carrying ...
Awareness material, Case Study, Guidance material, Report
Guidance material

Climate and Disaster Resilience: The Role of Community Driven Development

20 Oct 2015
Community-driven development is an approach “… that gives control over planning decisions and investment resources to community groups and local governments.” Historically, programs using a CDD approach grew out of situations of crisis (financi...
Guidance material, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Assessment or evaluation

Lessons Learned: Social Media Monitoring in Nepal

16 Oct 2015
This document summarises the experiences of the pilot social media monitoring project set up to following the 25 April earthquake in Nepal, and draws out key lessons learned and recommendations. It was informed by a lessons learned workshop in Nepal ...
Assessment or evaluation
Report

Innovation at UNHCR 2014

16 Oct 2015
Each of the Labs form a thematic focus on which UNHCR is committed to innovating based on a request from a Division to collaborate, which may or may not be combined with a pre-identifi ed organization-wide need. Innovation Labs are a co-working space...
Report, Mobile Technology
Video

Integrated Community Resilience and Development (ICRD) Program – China

16 Oct 2015
The ICRD programme targets around 110,000 people in 50 vulnerable communities. Some of the main issues for intervention relate to livelihood development, access to improved drinking water and sanitation facilities, better access to primary health car...
Video, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Video

Resilience, the forgotten humanitarian priority

14 Oct 2015
Assisting people and communities in better withstanding and recovering from shocks today is more effective than responding to crises tomorrow. As conflicts are increasingly protracted, the ICRC works to make its beneficiaries more resilient, while no...
Video, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Report

Universal App: Identifying High Priority Public Warnings

12 Oct 2015
This technical guide outlines the method used by the Global Disaster Preparedness Center’s Universal App Program to identify “high priority public warnings” within Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) alerts. These are messages requiring immediate or...
Report, Early Warning Systems
Guidance material

Integrating Climate Change into City Development Strategies

08 Oct 2015
The guide is intended to be of particular benefit for the following groups: • Planners working in local governments cities in lowand middle-income countries that are developing a City Development Strategy, have some knowledge of climate change a...
Guidance material, Climate Change Adaptation, Urban Resilience
Case Study

Case Study: Preparedness for epidemics in the UK

06 Oct 2015
One of TACTIC’s overarching aims is to understand preparedness from a cross-boundary, ‘multi-hazard’ perspective. As a part of this effort, TACTIC partners are investigating floods, earthquakes, epidemics and terrorism through a series of case ...
Case Study, Communicable Disease
Case Study

Case Study Earthquakes in Turkey

06 Oct 2015
As stated in the DoW, the earthquakes case study in Turkey focuses on individual, community, and organizational preparedness for earthquakes, and the secondary hazards related to earthquakes (e.g., fires) and other hazards (e.g., floods, landslides, ...
Case Study, Earthquake

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