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Disaster Resilience Leadership Program

23 Nov 2015
Leadership makes a tremendous difference in disaster preparation, response, and recovery. In times of extreme adversity, strong and effective leadership can prevent a disaster altogether or mitigate its impact, whereas weak and ineffective leadership...
Research, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Guidance material

Cash in Emergencies Toolkit

20 Nov 2015
  The Cash in Emergencies Toolkit has been developed by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to make tools, practical guidance and minimum standards easily accessible to Red Cross Red Crescent staff and volunteers and other prac...
Guidance material
Guidance material

City Strength Diagnostic Methodological Guidebook, GFDRR

19 Nov 2015
City Strength Diagnostic was developed to help World Bank staff apply this new holistic approach to urban resilience to operations. It was designed to help facilitate a dialogue among stakeholders (e.g. government, civil society, residents, and the p...
Guidance material, Urban Resilience
Other type of resource

RFP – Comparative Review of The Pillowcase Project

18 Nov 2015
The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC), a joint venture of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and American Red Cross, works with the Red Cross and Red Crescent (RC/RC) n...
Other type of resource, Public Awareness and Public Education, Youth Disaster Preparedness
Report

A Networked Approach to Strengthening Emergency Response Capacity

16 Nov 2015
Over the past decade, the global humanitarian agenda has moved from saving lives and providing basic services in emergencies toward building resilience to crises. However, the recent Ebola outbreaks in West Africa and ongoing crises in countries such...
Report, Post-Disaster Recovery, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Video

The Shelter Effect

09 Nov 2015
The Shelter Effect or how a safe home can change everything.Come and share your experiences here: www.facebook.com/TheShelterEffect
Video
Report

Humanitarian Broadcasting in Emergencies: A Synthesis of Evaluation Findings

05 Nov 2015
In recent years, the humanitarian community has increasingly recognised the importance of getting critical information to and from people affected by disasters. The systems, learning and coordination around such communication support have improved si...
Report, Communication As Aid
Research

Developing strategies to strengthen the resilience of hotels to disasters

31 Oct 2015
This scoping study analyzes the business context and needs for specific disaster risk management standards for small- and medium-sized hotels. as part of the the Hotel Resilient Initiative. The study is based on17 semi-structured interviews with ...
Research, Business Preparedness
Guidance material

Parliamentarians Fact Sheet

31 Oct 2015
A fact sheet providing a short overview of parliamentarians’ key role in contributing to and guiding the accountability of each national government to prevent and reduce disaster risk. In addition, the fact sheet provides information about how ...
Guidance material, Disaster Law
Report

CAP Implementations Status Report

28 Oct 2015
An unofficial report, based on reports to and personal knowledge of the author (Eliot Christian), is at https://cap-uptake.s3.amazonaws.com/status.pdf
Report, Early Warning Systems

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