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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
Case Study

Case study Terrorism in Europe

06 Oct 2015
This report examines a case study on effective community preparedness towards an act of terror. It is increasingly recognised that terrorism is a global threat that needs to be prepared for (Lemyre et al., 2006). The impacts of terrorist attacks in r...
Case Study
Case Study

Case Study Floods in Central Europe

06 Oct 2015
Floods are the most costly disasters (EEA 2010) in Europe. Although floods are quite common in many parts of Europe, they still pose a profound challenge to emergency and risk management agencies. This is particularly true in the large-scale river ba...
Case Study, Flood
Report

Report on risk perception and preparedness

06 Oct 2015
The findings of this report highlight advantages of different disciplinary approaches for informing preparedness; some are well suited to risk assessment and others for informing risk management and preparedness. Rapid response to all of the hazards ...
Report, Risk Assessment

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