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Local and Indigenous Knowledge for Community Resilience

24 Jun 2015
Coastal communities living in archipelago countries and small island states in Asia are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of hydro-meteorological hazards such as storms, droughts, landslides, and floods. Environmental degradation such as defor...
Other type of resource, Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Financing, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience
Awareness material

Weather Information Board

17 Jun 2015
The Meteorological Office in Bangladesh has developed an innovative Information Board to share up-to-date weather information in towns and villages in Bangladesh. The Information Board is a great combination of static and dynamic approaches to sharin...
Awareness material, Communication As Aid, Early Warning Systems
Training material

Different. Just like you: A psychosocial approach promoting the inclusion of persons with disabilities: Training guide

17 Jun 2015
This training guide supports a one-day training workshop based on the handbook of the same name. It is aimed at professionals and volunteers who are interested in planning psychosocial activities that include persons with disabilities. The main goal...
Training material, Disability Inclusive Disaster Preparedness, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Training material

Caring for Volunteers: Training Manual

17 Jun 2015
Caring for Volunteers: Training Manual complements Caring for Volunteers: A Psychosocial Support Toolkit, which focuses on the well-being of volunteers in situations of crisis or catastrophe. The goal of the two-day training is to better train and ...
Training material, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Training material

Caring for Volunteers: A Psychosocial Support Toolkit

17 Jun 2015
Staff and volunteers across the globe provide important psychosocial support every day. Not only in response to disasters, armed conflicts and mass shootings, but also in social programmes for slum-dwellers, with victims of violence or accidents, wit...
Training material, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Training material

Different. Just like you: Handbook

17 Jun 2015
This handbook is aimed at professionals and volunteers who work with persons with disabilities. The concept of empowerment is central to the whole approach presented in this handbook. Empowerment is defined as a process of strengthening, whereby indi...
Training material, Disability Inclusive Disaster Preparedness, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Report

UNHCR Mid Year Trends 2014

16 Jun 2015
This report is the second of its kind, analyzing displacement trends within the first half of 2014. The figures in this report were collected from governments and UNHCR offices around the world. UNHCR introduced a new online data collection tool to e...
Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience
Video

Development Progress – Urban Poverty: how should cities grow and function?

16 Jun 2015
This animation looks at urban poverty in the light of increasing urbanisation across the world and asks how policy makers can include communities to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal to “Make Cities and Human Settlements inclusive, safe,...
Video, Urban Resilience
Assessment or evaluation

Nepal Earthquake Lessons 2015

16 Jun 2015
This lessons paper aims to assist operational agencies responding to the 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake. It provides 17 lessons drawn from experience of previous comparable disasters, based on evaluations, research papers and interviews with operatio...
Assessment or evaluation, Earthquake, Urban Resilience
Video

Think Tsunami

16 Jun 2015
Excellent video, in Japanese with English subtitles, on the effects of powerful Tsunami and how we can best prepare for them. The video also highlights a lot of myths and mistruths about Tsunami behaviour that must be weeded out if lives are to be sa...
Video, Tsunami

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