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Innovation in Urban Development: Incremental Housing, Big Data, and Gender

16 Jul 2015
Over the next two decades the number of city dwellers will soar to nearly five billion, 60 percent of the world’s population. Virtually all of this urban growth will occur in cities of the developing world, overwhelming ecosystems and placing treme...
Case Study, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Primeros auxilios en conflictos armados y otras situaciones de violencia

15 Jul 2015
Este manual se dirige principalmente a un público integrado por los socorristas experimentados de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja, que cumplen con su labor en situaciones de conflicto armado y demás situaciones de violencia. Asimismo, estas di...
Guidance material
Guidance material

First Aid in armed conflicts and other situations of violence

15 Jul 2015
A practical manual presenting the specific knowledge, skills and practices that First Aiders should have to act safely and effectively when caring for people caught up in armed conflicts and other situations of violence, such as internal disturbances...
Guidance material
Case Study

Epidemic Preparedness in Indonesia

14 Jul 2015
Indonesia is one of the world’s most natural disaster- prone countries. Earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, landslides and volcanic activity pose a constant threat to the safety and wellbeing of millions of people living across the 13,700 islands of t...
Case Study, Communicable Disease
Guidance material

The Catastrophe Method: Using Intolerable Consequences To Detect Concealed Threats

14 Jul 2015
THE CATASTROPHE METHOD: USING INTOLERABLE CONSEQUENCES TO DETECT CONCEALED THREATS By Gary Oleson, TASC Senior Engineer​ (I chose this paper, as the writer brings elements to consider thinking in terms of teams responding.) The budget reductions be...
Guidance material
Other type of resource

Proceedings of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

09 Jul 2015
These proceedings highlight the five days of deliberations, discussions and presentations held at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) held at Sendai City, Japan in March 2015. The proceedings include the Senda...
Other type of resource
Report, Research

Report – Workshop on Research and Evidence Based Practice for Humanitarian Work

08 Jul 2015
The report summarizes the workshop on research and evidence based practice for humanitarian work that was held in Geneva, CH on May 19 – 20, 2015. Workshop participants included representatives from RCRC national societies, IFRC and external ac...
Report, Research
Awareness material, Guidance material

Road to resilience: a guide to leading a resilient life

07 Jul 2015
This book is intended for urban households, colonies and clusters and provides bottom-up resilience building options for augmenting urban services through conservation of local resources and waste recycling options. It provides solutions based on pri...
Awareness material, Guidance material, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience
Awareness material, Guidance material, Report

The Red Cross and Red Crescent’s Principled Approach to Innovation

07 Jul 2015
In June 2015, the Red Cross and Red Crescent published “The Red Cross and Red Crescent’s Principled Approach to Innovation” to: Highlight how the Red Cross and Red Crescent’s Fundamental Principles guide its innovative approaches to p...
Awareness material, Guidance material, Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Report

Draft National Risk Assessment 2015 (Ireland)

07 Jul 2015
The Government of Ireland has published the draft National Risk Assessment 2015 – Overview of Strategic Risks. This sets out a draft list of strategic risks, both financial and non-financial, which Ireland faces, with a view to stimulating public ...
Report, Risk Assessment

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