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Global Video Collection on Community Disaster Response Teams (CDRT) experiences

26 Aug 2015
The ‘Global Video Collection on Disaster Response Teams’ aimed at providing National Societies an additional and innovative way to compiled and showcase their activities and experiences on Community, Branch and National Disaster Response Teams, k...
Video
Video

Rwanda, Burundi – A story about nutrition

21 Aug 2015
The story is set in a mix of rural Rwanda and Burundi, it follows a mother’s narration of her children Kanyange and Kagabo going through varying levels of malnutrition. The story is meant to create awareness on the symptoms, treatment and the eleme...
Video, Public Awareness and Public Education
Video

Rwanda, Burundi – A Big Storm

21 Aug 2015
A story set in a mix rural Rwanda and Burundi aimed at encouraging Disaster Preparedness for floods, landslides and strong winds. It follows Kagabo, a young boy who narrates first-hand what happened when his village was hit by a huge disaster and wha...
Video, Flood, Landslide, Public Awareness and Public Education
Other type of resource

Réponse aprés le séisme au Népal: Enseignements pour les agences opérationnelles

21 Aug 2015
Le présent rapport sur les enseignements tirés a pour but d’aider les agencies opérationnelles intervenant après le tremblement de terre qui a frappé le Népal le 25 avril 2015. S’inspirant de l’expérience de catastrophes passées similai...
Other type of resource, Earthquake
Case Study

Disaster Response: Ooredoo responds to a Water Crisis in the Maldives

17 Aug 2015
On the 4th of December 2014, a fire broke out at the Maldives Water and Sewerage Company Generator Unit located on the island capital Malé resulting in the cutting off of drinking water to over 150,000 people. Whilst government bodies acted quickly ...
Case Study, Business Preparedness, Post-Disaster Recovery
Case Study

Disaster Response: DEWN – Dialog’s Disaster and Emergency Warning Network

17 Aug 2015
On December 26th 2014, the tenth anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Sri Lankan Mobile Network Operator Dialog unveiled version 2 of is Disaster and Emergency Warning Network; DEWN v2. Developed in the aftermath of the 2004 disaster, DEWN v1 uti...
Case Study, Early Warning Systems, Mobile Technology
Report

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

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