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The Resource Library contains a searchable inventory of documents related to hazards and disaster preparedness in communities around the globe. It serves as a repository of program documentation, policies, annual reports, lessons learned, guidance, and tools and methodologies that can help you design and learn about preparedness operations in any region. Use the search box and filters below to better find what you’re looking for.

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Development Impact of Social Media

19 Jan 2016

This background paper prepared for the World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends assess the role of social media in social and economic development. Robert Ackland; Kyosuke Tanaka (2015): Development Impact of Social Media.

Report

Research

Unseen, Unheard Gender-Based Violence in Disaster

19 Jan 2016

During past disasters, GBV has been largely unseen and unheard. This study concludes that more should be done to determine the frequency of GBV during disasters, the forms it takes, and what disaster responders can and should do to prevent GBV and re...

Research, Women and Gender in Disaster Management

Assessment or evaluation

Urban Livelihoods Recovery, Lessons from Port-au-Prince, Haiti

14 Jan 2016

The earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010 led to the loss of more than 220,000 lives, over 310,000 injuries and extensive damage to buildings and infrastructure. Taking the British Red Cross recovery programme as a case stu...

Assessment or evaluation, Livelihoods and Food Security, Post-Disaster Recovery

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Call for Case Studies on Coalition Building

14 Jan 2016

Description and details on the call for Case Studies on Coalition Building

Other type of resource

Guidance material

Gender and Diversity Strategy, American Red Cross International Services

05 Jan 2016

Among its core functions, the American Red Cross International Services Department (ARC-ISD) strives to support Host National Societies (HNS) to assist the most vulnerable people in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from man-made and...

Guidance material, Women and Gender in Disaster Management

Report

Crisis Overview 2015: Humanitarian Trends and Risks for 2016

05 Jan 2016

In 2012 ACAPS launched the Global Emergency Overview (GEO). Since then, we have provided a weekly global overview of humanitarian crises. The Crisis Overview 2015: Humanitarian Trends and Risks for 2016 is the first attempt to use the three years o...

Report, Mapping and Geospatial Data

Guidance material

पुस्तिका: पुरातात्विक महत्वका भवनहरूको मर्मतसंभारमा भुकम्पीय सुरक्षा अभिवृध्दिका उपायहरू

31 Dec 2015

पुस्तिका: पुरातात्विक महत्वका भवनहरूको मर्मतसंभारमा भुकम्पीय सुरक्षा अभिवृध्दिका उपायहरू ...

Guidance material, Earthquake, Infrastructure and Services, Urban Resilience

Awareness material

रातो पाण्डा चित्र कथा (कमिक) श्रृङ्खला: प्रकोप जोखिम न्यूनिकरण

29 Dec 2015

Red Panda Comic Series: Disaster Risk Reduction (in Nepali) अमेरिकी दुतावास काठमाण्डौं र नेपालस्थित अमेरिकी सहयोग नियोगको प्रकोप �...

Awareness material, Earthquake, Youth Disaster Preparedness

Awareness material, Video

रातो पाण्डा सार्वजनिक हितका सन्देशहरूको श्रृङ्खला: प्रकोप जोखिम न्यूनिकरण

28 Dec 2015

Red Panda PSA Video Series: Disaster Risk Reduction (in Nepali) अमेरिकी दुतावास काठमाण्डौं र नेपालस्थित अमेरिकी सहयोग नियोगको प्रको�...

Awareness material, Video, Earthquake, Public Awareness and Public Education, Youth Disaster Preparedness

Research

Tsunami detection using commercial cargo ships

23 Dec 2015

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) have begun equipping commercial cargo ships with low-cost tsunami sensors to provide real-time early detection data as they move through th...

Research, Early Warning Systems, Tsunami

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Unseen, Unheard Gender-Based Violence in Disaster

Urban Livelihoods Recovery, Lessons from Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Call for Case Studies on Coalition Building

Gender and Diversity Strategy, American Red Cross International Services

Crisis Overview 2015: Humanitarian Trends and Risks for 2016

पुस्तिका: पुरातात्विक महत्वका भवनहरूको मर्मतसंभारमा भुकम्पीय सुरक्षा अभिवृध्दिका उपायहरू

रातो पाण्डा चित्र कथा (कमिक) श्रृङ्खला: प्रकोप जोखिम न्यूनिकरण

रातो पाण्डा सार्वजनिक हितका सन्देशहरूको श्रृङ्खला: प्रकोप जोखिम न्यूनिकरण

Tsunami detection using commercial cargo ships

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