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Home Fire Preparedness Campaign: Mobilize Guide

06 Apr 2015
This guide contains instructions and tools for mobilizing the community to engage with and carry out local American Red Cross Home Fire Preparedness Campaign activities. Specifically, this guide focuses on how to develop a coalition of partners by al...
Guidance material, Communication As Aid, Public Awareness and Public Education
Report

New technologies in emergencies and conflicts

02 Apr 2015
A look at the use of communications technology during disasters in recent years shows that while it has played a positive role, its full potential has not yet been realized. Moreover, governments, humanitarian agencies, and local communities face ch...
Report, Communication As Aid, Early Warning Systems, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology
Other type of resource

Mobile for development: how public-private partnerships between telecommunications and humanitarian agencies can save lives

02 Apr 2015
In preparation for their upcoming AIDF Asia: Aid & Response Summit, the Aid and International Development Forum (AIDF) has released a Mobile for Development infographic, visualising the growing ubiquity of the mobile phone in the developing worl...
Other type of resource, Mobile Technology
Video

Earthquake Scenario of Kathmandu Valley

01 Apr 2015
Visit the NRRC at: http://www.un.org.np/coordinationmech…Follow the NRRC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NepalDRRFollow the NRRC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NepalDRR Nepal is prone to a variety of disasters. One of the major concer...
Video
Guidance material, Video

Earthquake Safe Building Practices in Nepal: Video Toolkit

01 Apr 2015
Earthquake Safe Building Practices in Nepal: Video Toolkit by UNDP Nepal Earthquake Safe Building Practices in Nepal: Video Toolkit (Episode 1), Earthquake Safe Building Practices in Nepal: Video Toolkit (Episode 2), Earthquake Safe Building Practice...
Guidance material, Video, Earthquake
Awareness material, Other type of resource

The Impact of Natural Hazards and Disasters on Agriculture and Food and Nutritions Security: A Call for Action to Build Resilient Livelihoods

31 Mar 2015
There is a critical information gap in terms of the quantitative economic impact of disasters on agriculture and on the livelihoods and food security of populations affected. FAO has undertaken a study to help fill this information gap, and to quanti...
Awareness material, Other type of resource, Livelihoods and Food Security
Report

Disaster Relief 2.0: The future of information sharing in humanitarian emergencies

31 Mar 2015
After a large-scale disaster, there is always a massive effort to collect and analyze large volumes of data and distill from the chaos the critical information needed to target humanitarian aid most efficiently. But the response to the 2010 earthquak...
Report, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology
Other type of resource

Applying technology to crisis mapping and early warning in humanitarian settings

31 Mar 2015
The purpose of this Working Paper on Crisis Mapping is to briefly analyze the current use, and changing role, of information communication technology (ICT) in conflict early warning, crisis mapping and humanitarian response. We demonstrate that ICTs ...
Other type of resource, Early Warning Systems, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology
Report

Crowdsourcing Crisis Information in Disaster-Affected Haiti

31 Mar 2015
This report was commissioned by the United States Institute of Peace’s Center of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding and Haiti Working Group. It examines the role of Ushahidi, a crisis-mapping platform, in the disaster relief effo...
Report, Early Warning Systems, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology
Video

TEDxKC – Patrick Meier – Changing The World, One Map At A Time

31 Mar 2015
Maps have always been a source of fascination and intrigue. Today’s maps, however, can also help to save lives during disasters, document human rights abuses and monitor elections in countries under repressive rule. This presentation will expla...
Video, Early Warning Systems, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology

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