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Chikungunya – Hard to pronounce, but easy to prevent

20 Jul 2015
Chikungunya is similar to Dengue, but the fever and joint pain are more intense in the case of Chikungunya.Chikungunya cannot affect the same person twice.There is no vaccine.Generally it does not cause death, but more vulnerable persons and those w...
Video, Communicable Disease, Public Awareness and Public Education, Risk Assessment
Case Study

Cities, Climate Change, and The Big Opportunity: How Empowering the Urban Poor Can Improve Our Global Future

18 Jul 2015
For centuries, cities have proven themselves to be engines of economic growth, sources of innovation and places of job creation. As cities invest in their adaption and resilience to climate change, this is also a window of opportunity to invest in ne...
Case Study, Urban Resilience
Case Study

Study on legal preparedness for international assistance in the event of disasters: towards the implementation of the “IDRL” Guidelines in Dominican Republic

16 Jul 2015
This report analyses the institutional and legal framework of the Dominican Republic with regard to the international assistance in the event of disasters. It summarizes the findings and recommendations of a “Technical assistance project for the fa...
Case Study, Disaster Law
Case Study

Innovation in Urban Development: Incremental Housing, Big Data, and Gender

16 Jul 2015
Over the next two decades the number of city dwellers will soar to nearly five billion, 60 percent of the world’s population. Virtually all of this urban growth will occur in cities of the developing world, overwhelming ecosystems and placing treme...
Case Study, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Primeros auxilios en conflictos armados y otras situaciones de violencia

15 Jul 2015
Este manual se dirige principalmente a un público integrado por los socorristas experimentados de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja, que cumplen con su labor en situaciones de conflicto armado y demás situaciones de violencia. Asimismo, estas di...
Guidance material
Guidance material

First Aid in armed conflicts and other situations of violence

15 Jul 2015
A practical manual presenting the specific knowledge, skills and practices that First Aiders should have to act safely and effectively when caring for people caught up in armed conflicts and other situations of violence, such as internal disturbances...
Guidance material
Case Study

Epidemic Preparedness in Indonesia

14 Jul 2015
Indonesia is one of the world’s most natural disaster- prone countries. Earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, landslides and volcanic activity pose a constant threat to the safety and wellbeing of millions of people living across the 13,700 islands of t...
Case Study, Communicable Disease
Guidance material

The Catastrophe Method: Using Intolerable Consequences To Detect Concealed Threats

14 Jul 2015
THE CATASTROPHE METHOD: USING INTOLERABLE CONSEQUENCES TO DETECT CONCEALED THREATS By Gary Oleson, TASC Senior Engineer​ (I chose this paper, as the writer brings elements to consider thinking in terms of teams responding.) The budget reductions be...
Guidance material
Other type of resource

Proceedings of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

09 Jul 2015
These proceedings highlight the five days of deliberations, discussions and presentations held at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) held at Sendai City, Japan in March 2015. The proceedings include the Senda...
Other type of resource
Report, Research

Report – Workshop on Research and Evidence Based Practice for Humanitarian Work

08 Jul 2015
The report summarizes the workshop on research and evidence based practice for humanitarian work that was held in Geneva, CH on May 19 – 20, 2015. Workshop participants included representatives from RCRC national societies, IFRC and external ac...
Report, Research

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