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Accompanying the families of missing persons: A practical handbook

18 May 2015
The ICRC has played an active role since 1991 in supporting the families of missing persons and advocating respect for their right to know the fate of their relatives. During the conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, families filed ove...
Guidance material
Awareness material

The need to know: restoring links between dispersed family members

18 May 2015
This publication explains how the Family Links network operates and why its services are so important. It describes situations in which family separations occur, and the many ways in which the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement support...
Awareness material
Awareness material

Living with absence: Helping the families of the missing

18 May 2015
Many people go missing as a result of conflict, natural and man-made disasters, other humanitarian crises, and migration. Disappearance, dreadful enough for the individuals concerned, means anguish for their families, left in limbo over their loved o...
Awareness material
Case Study, Report

Viet Nam Case Study Report: How Law and Regulation Support Disaster Risk Reduction

18 May 2015
Viet Nam is prone to many different types of natural hazards. They are mainly hydro-meteorological, such as recurring floods and storms, but also include low to moderate risks of droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires, cold and heat waves, and...
Case Study, Report, Disaster Law
Other type of resource

Nepal Earthquake Response: Lessons for operational agencies

13 May 2015
In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, this paper looks at lessons drawn from previous comparable disasters and seeks to provide invaluable information and assistance to the operational agencies responding to the crisis. Seventeen Le...
Other type of resource, Earthquake
Guidance material

10 Lessons from Fukushima: Reducing risks and protecting communities from nuclear disasters

12 May 2015
While it is very important to share the experiences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, people on the receiving end of such advice cannot take appropriate action unless they understand how to anticipate and prevent the actual disaster at the root of a...
Guidance material
Research

A Critical Disconnect: The role of SAARC in building the DRM capacities in South Asian countries

12 May 2015
This study considers the different elements of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation’s (SAARC) DMC’s efforts over the last decade and to assess their impact in supporting the national capacities of member states. This study eva...
Research
Case Study

IFRC Case Study: Unconditional cash transfers response to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)

12 May 2015
As a response to Typhoon Haiyan, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched a preliminary Emergency Appeal to support the Philippine Red Cross in delivering humanitarian assistance to 100,000 families (500,00...
Case Study
Report

Elders leading the way to resilience

11 May 2015
This report describes and assesses the experience of Ofunato, Japan, which was devastated by the 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. After the GEJE, older people wanted to do something useful to help Ofunato recover. With facilitation by the NGO Iba...
Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Guidance material

Community early warning systems: guiding principles

11 May 2015
The Community early warning systems: guiding principles is one of a set of guides prepared by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), along with the guides for vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA) and publi...
Guidance material, Early Warning Systems

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