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Dar importancia al voluntariado

07 Aug 2015
El presente informe es el resultado del esfuerzo colectivo del grupo de trabajo de la Junta de Gobierno sobre el voluntariado y la Secretaría de la Federación Internacional, y tiene por objeto ofrecer una visión global del desarrollo del voluntari...
Report
Guidance material

Volunteering in Emergencies: Protect. Promote. Recognize.

07 Aug 2015
To design and support policies that promote volunteering, governments need to measure and disseminate the economic value they bring to communities. Tools now exist to calculate this information. In March 2011, the International Labour Organization (I...
Guidance material
Report

The Value of Volunteering

07 Aug 2015
This survey and report, entitled: The value of volunteering, provides credible evidence of the economic value of volunteers within the Red Cross and Red Crescent. It also provides insights into the social value that our volunteers deliver to their lo...
Report
Guidance material

Community-Based Home Care for Older People

07 Aug 2015
In April 2010, when 52 National Societies in the Europe Zone gathered in Vienna for the 8th European Red Cross Red Crescent Conference, they collectively committed to moving forward in preventing, mitigating and addressing the vulnerabilities that ma...
Guidance material
Report

Rising to the Challenge

07 Aug 2015
Communities in the Pacific region face a number of new challenges during an era of unprecedented social change. Major towns are growing rapidly as people leave rural areas in search of opportunities. There is an increase in informal settlements, wher...
Report
Guidance material

Volunteering in Emergencies: Practical guidelines for Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies managing volunteers in emergency situations

06 Aug 2015
Volunteers are our most valued resource. They bring local knowledge and contacts, know the language, customs and operating environments, as well as bring a wide range of skills and capacities to rapidly scale up activities when needed, and sustain th...
Guidance material
Awareness material, Guidance material, Report

Towards Safer School Construction – A community-based approach

03 Aug 2015
This publication synthesizes the lessons from past community-based school construction programs and projects around the globe. It provides guidance for engaging communities in mobilisation, planning, design, construction and post-construction mainten...
Awareness material, Guidance material, Report, Public Awareness and Public Education
Guidance material

A guide to measuring urban risk resilience: principles, tools and practice of urban indicators

03 Aug 2015
This Guidebook describes the principles, tools and practices of three (3) urban disaster risk and resilience indicator systems based on EMI’s collective experience in implementing them in various urban settings in the last decade with local authori...
Guidance material, Risk Assessment, Urban Resilience
Research

Developing strategies to strengthen the resilience of hotels to disasters: A scoping study to guide the development of the Hotel Resilient Initiative

03 Aug 2015
Exerpt from Executive Summary: Tourism is one of the most economically important sets of industries worldwide, yet the industry is also one of the most highly exposed to disasters due to its reliance on interrelated industries and location in man...
Research, Business Preparedness, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience
Research

Social Media Analysis Tools for Preparedness

31 Jul 2015
This report summarizes the findings of a comparative review of social media analysis tools and how their functionality can support for disaster preparedness and risk reduction work. Over the last years social media analysis tools have increasingly be...
Research

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