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Disaster Response: Mobile Money for the Displaced

17 Aug 2015
Advances in mobile technology have opened up new opportunities, not only for communication, but also for using the mobile handset as a platform for a range of applications. The introduction of data transfer facilities and the rise of mobile financial...
Report, Mobile Technology
Case Study

Case Study: Lessons learned from community mapping in urban and rural areas in East Africa and Bangladesh

12 Aug 2015
The Missing Maps project aims to literally and figuratively put more than 20 million vulnerable, at-risk people on the map using OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a platform. We need to fill in these “missing maps†before the next disaster strikes ensuring ...
Case Study, Mapping and Geospatial Data
Report

Strengthening livelihood capacities to disaster risk reduction in Nepal

12 Aug 2015
This book documents the lessons learned during the Livelihood Centred Approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction project in the Chitwan and Nawalparasi districts of Nepal. It describes the prevailing physical, institutional and socio-economic context, and...
Report, Livelihoods and Food Security
Guidance material

Protected areas as tools for Disaster Risk Reduction. A handbook for practitioners

12 Aug 2015
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has therefore become a critical part of sustainable development strategies. The acronym DRR embraces a complex mixture of policies and actions, from education of civil society, through disaster preparedness strategies to...
Guidance material, Drought, Earthquake, Flood, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Landslide, Tsunami, Volcano, Wildfire
Guidance material

Multi-Agency Resource Center – MARC: Planning Resource

11 Aug 2015
Multi-Agency Resource Center (MARC), can be an efficient way to deliver services to individuals and families affected by a disaster by bringing together multiple service providers in a single location and providing on-site assistance. This resource i...
Guidance material, Infrastructure and Services, Livelihoods and Food Security, Post-Disaster Recovery
Other type of resource, Research

Disaster Resilience Journal

10 Aug 2015
The Disaster Resilience Journal is an interactive documentary that examines how individuals, communities and countries around the world are building resilience in a landscape of climate change, and social, economic and cultural shifts. The documenta...
Other type of resource, Research, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Risk Assessment
Awareness material, Research

La memoria es también porvenir. Historia mundial de los desastres

07 Aug 2015
A lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, nos hemos preocupado mucho más sobre las consecuencias de los desastres que sobre cuáles fueron sus causas. Esta visión reactiva sobre los desastres ha prevalecido durante varios siglos. Sin embargo, en l...
Awareness material, Research
Report

Taking Volunteers Seriously

07 Aug 2015
This report is the result of a collective effort by the Governing Board’s working group on volunteering and the International Federation secretariat, which aims to provide a picture of volunteering development since 1999. It provides a broad outlin...
Report
Report

أخذ المتطوعين بجدية

07 Aug 2015
هذا التقرير هو جهد مشترك بين Ùريق عمل مجلس الأدارة المعني بالتطوع Ùˆ أمانة الإتحاد، يرمي إلي تقديم صورة عن التطوع من عام 1999 Ùˆ يقدم التقرير Ù...
Report
Report

Prendre le volontariat au sérieux

07 Aug 2015
Le présent rapport, fruit d’une collaboration entre le Groupe de travail du Conseil de direction sur le volontariat et le Secrétariat de la Fédération, vise à dresser un bilan du développement du volontariat depuis 1999. Il donne un aperçu g...
Report

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