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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
Guidance material

Systèmes communautaires d’alerte précoce: principes directeurs

11 May 2015
Systèmes communautaires d’alerte précoce : principes directeurs est un des guides rédigés par la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (FICR), et qui vient compléter le guide sur l’évaluation de ...
Guidance material, Early Warning Systems
Guidance material

Sistemas comunitarios de alerta temprana: principios rectores

11 May 2015
Sistemas comunitarios de alerta temprana: principios rectores ipertenece a una serie de guías elaboradas por la Federación Internacional de Sociedades de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja, junto a las guías para el análisis de la vulnerabilida...
Guidance material, Early Warning Systems
Other type of resource

Comparative review of First Aid app between different countries- Concept note and template

11 May 2015
Background Through the Universal App Program, the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) and the Global First Aid Reference Center have created a platform to facilitate the adaption and localization of mobile applications (apps) with first aid an...
Other type of resource
Guidance material

نظم المجتمع المحلي للإنذار المبكر: المبادئ التوجيهية

11 May 2015
لقد تراجعت نسبة الخسائر البشرية والمادية في الكوارث خلال الثلاثين سنة الماضية بفضل نظم الإنذار المبكر المحسنة حيث إن العديد منها ذات «تك...
Guidance material, Early Warning Systems
Case Study

GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Reponse in Guinea 2014

07 May 2015
In March 2014, MSF-Switzerland deployed a dedicated Geographic Information Systems (GIS) officer to Guinea in response to the Ebola outbreak in the south of the country. In support of the epidemiological team, the GIS officer was charged with produci...
Case Study, Communicable Disease, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology
Case Study

Cash transfer programming in emergencies: A success story from the Viet Nam Red Cross

05 May 2015
This case study examines the increased use of cash transfer programming in emergencies by the Viet Nam Red Cross (VNRC) with support from Red Cross and Red Crescent Partner National Societies (PNS) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Re...
Case Study
Research

Want to Get Out Alive? Follow the Ants

30 Apr 2015
Article in Nautilus magazine highlighting research by Nirajan Shiwakoti and Majid Sarvi at Monash University in Melbourne into the influence of architectural design on evacuation speed and efficiency. The research used ants, which crowd together in...
Research

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