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Beneficiary Communications

09 Apr 2015
The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement believes communities need and deserve to have information that affects their future, both before and after a disaster. As in everyday life, communities make decisions based on the best possible information availabl...
Video, Communication As Aid
Video

Climate Change, Natural Disasters and the Urban Poor

08 Apr 2015
The urban poor from several cities, including Mexico City, Jakarta and Sao Paolo, face challenges due to the impacts of climate change and natural disasters. - World Bank, 2011
Video, Climate Change Adaptation
Report

Building Social Resilience: Protecting and empowering those most at risk

08 Apr 2015
This paper was prepared as an input to the fourth Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR). The GAR reports biannually on global progress, trends, and challenges in the field of disaster risk reduction (DRR). It also serves as an ins...
Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Report

WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 2014

08 Apr 2015
This 2014 edition of WMO’s internationally recognized series provides an overview of the key climate events of the year and an in-depth analysis of regional trends as part of a WMO drive to provide more information at regional and national lev...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation
Guidance material

GIS Use Cases

08 Apr 2015
American Red Cross International Services Department (ISD) has piloted and refined applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to its core programming and response activities. In this time, we’ve found that the best tools and the most effc...
Guidance material, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

A practical guide to gender-sensitive approaches for disaster management

07 Apr 2015
These guidelines are intended to help Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) incorporate effective gender-sensitive and inclusive approaches into their disas...
Guidance material, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Guidance material

Integrating gender in disaster management in Small Island Developing States: a guide

07 Apr 2015
Climate risk management is taking on a new urgency for policy makers, as well as those on the front lines at community level. The connections between climate change and the increased incidence of hurricanes, droughts, massive floods, similar destruct...
Guidance material, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Video

Radiological and Nuclear Disaster Preparedness

07 Apr 2015
Are we, as a nation, prepared for a radiological or nuclear attack? With concern over continued terrorist threats at home and abroad, “dirty bombs”, and the nuclear armament of rogue states, this question is just as relevant today as it w...
Video, Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies
Assessment or evaluation

Reflexiones y aportes metodológicos en torno a la vulnerabilidad

07 Apr 2015
Marco de referencia conceptual sobre vulnerabilidad territorial La presente publicación forma parte de una colección de reflexiones y aportes metodológicos en torno a la vulnerabilidad. Este documento es el primero de la serie y consta de dos part...
Assessment or evaluation, Risk Assessment
Awareness material

Understanding Drought in India

07 Apr 2015
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the important theme of ‘Understanding Drought in India’. India’s overdependence on rainfed agriculture and the increasing variability of monsoons due to climate change underscore...
Awareness material, Drought

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