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Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2015

06 Oct 2015
Humanitarian financing is in the spotlight like never before. An extraordinary combination of crises continues to test international, national and local capacity to prevent, prepare and respond as needs continue to outstrip available resources. Globa...
Report, Communication As Aid, Post-Disaster Recovery
Report

Good practices on economic empowerment of women in post-disaster reconstruction in Tohoku and the Asia-Pacific

02 Oct 2015
This report presents good practices in the promotion of economic empowerment of women in the post-disaster situations through entrepreneurship development in Japan and the Asia Pacific region. It discusses what contributed to the successful achieveme...
Report, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Assessment or evaluation, Case Study

Safer Schools, Resilient Communities: A Comparative Assessment of School Safety after the 2015 Nepal (Gorkha) Earthquakes

30 Sep 2015
The effects of the earthquake on Nepal’s educational infrastructure offer a rare opportunity to study whether previous interventions to improve building practices, combined with community engagement, have resulted in safer schools and communities. ...
Assessment or evaluation, Case Study, Earthquake, Infrastructure and Services, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Report

Nepal Earthquake: Agricultural Livelihoods Impact Appraisal in Six Most Affected Districts

30 Sep 2015
This report presents a coherent picture of the impact of the Nepal earthquake on agriculture in the six most affected districts: Dhading, Dolakha, Gorkha, Nuwakot, Rasuwa and Sindhupalchock. It identifies priorities for recovery for families dependen...
Report, Earthquake, Livelihoods and Food Security
Report

2015 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop – Report and Presentations

25 Sep 2015
The 2015 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop, held on 23–24 September 2015 in Rome, Italy, brought together over 120 experts from around the world to share technical experiences and advance the use of CAP for effective emergency ...
Report, Early Warning Systems
Report

World Disasters Report 2015: Focus on local actors, the key to humanitarian effectiveness

24 Sep 2015
Local actors are often the most effective in conducting humanitarian operations. However, despite their critical role, they struggle to attract the funding and support they need. The 2015 World Disasters Report – by the International Federation of ...
Report
Video

ICCM 2013: Jus MacKinnon: Media Monitoring in support of UN-OCHA’s response to Typhoon Yolanda

23 Sep 2015
Justine MacKinnon from the Standby Task Force discusses Media Monitoring and Mapping in support of UN-OCHA’s response to Typhoon Yolanda. Working with the Digital Humanitarian Network & wonderful volunteers from around the world to examine...
Video, Mapping and Geospatial Data
Awareness material, Report

Harnessing the Crowdsourcing Power of Social Media for Disaster Relief

23 Sep 2015
Crowdsourcing integrated with crisis maps has been a powerful tool in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. Future crowdsourcing applications must provide capabilities to better manage unstructured messages and enhance streaming data. Enhancem...
Awareness material, Report, Communication As Aid, Community Engagement and Accountability, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Social Media in Disasters
Video

National Geographic Live! – Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping

23 Sep 2015
Emerging Explorer Patrick Meier pioneers the lifesaving new field of crisis mapping, which is helping revolutionize the effectiveness of relief efforts worldwide.
Video, Mapping and Geospatial Data
Research

Integrating Social Media Communications into the Rapid Assessment of Sudden Onset Disasters

23 Sep 2015
Recent research on automatic analysis of social media data during disasters has given insight into how to provide valuable and timely information to formal response agencies—and members of the public—in these safety-critical situations. For the m...
Research

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