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Climate change, natural disasters, and human displacement: a UNHCR perspective

05 Feb 2015
This report contains UNHCR’s preliminary perpsectives on the complex and evolving nexus between climate change displacement and cross-border movements within the current international framework. It addresses a range of displacement scenarios and ch...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Law, Livelihoods and Food Security
Video

Beyond Environmental Refuge: How climate change will affect the world’s (human) migration patterns

05 Feb 2015
“Scientists and security agencies warn that hundreds of millions will become environmental refugees in coming decades, forced by climate change to flee their homes and communities in the face of food shortages, water scarcity, rising sea levels...
Video, Climate Change Adaptation
Video

Do Climate Change ‘Refugees’ Exist?

05 Feb 2015
This lecture examines the nature of climate-related movement; whether expanding the protection offered by international refugee law and human rights law is feasible; and what other solutions might be appropriate. Professor Jane McAdam (BA (Hons), LLB...
Video, Climate Change Adaptation
Video

360° of Preparedness: Reflections from Cities around the World

04 Feb 2015
Experts in the field of disaster management shared perspectives and experiences pertaining to disaster preparedness in rapidly growing urban settings across the globe. City case studies included Christchurch, New Zealand; Istanbul, Turkey; Kathmandu...
Video, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Guidelines for Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Settings

04 Feb 2015
The primary purpose of these guidelines is to enable humanitarian actors and communities to plan, establish, and coordinate a set of minimum multisectoral interventions to prevent and respond to sexual violence during the early phase of an emergency....
Guidance material, Infrastructure and Services, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Public Awareness and Public Education, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Awareness material, Guidance material

Guidelines for the use of new media by the public in crisis situations: Tips and tricks for citizens

04 Feb 2015
This report provides guidelines that citizens may help in the optimal use of social media during crisis situations. Tips and tricks are formulated for the different roles that citizens can take. Tips and tricks for citizens: How to use new media...
Awareness material, Guidance material, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology
Awareness material, Guidance material

Guidelines for the use of new media by public and private organisations before, during and after crises

04 Feb 2015
This report provides guidelines for public and private organisations regarding the use of social media in crisis situations. The aim of these guidelines are to advance social media usage by both citizens and organisations during crises in order to ...
Awareness material, Guidance material, Communication As Aid, Community Engagement and Accountability, Mobile Technology
Guidance material, Training material

IFRC Recovery programming guidance

03 Feb 2015
This guidance is for those who wish to learn about recovery as it is currently understood within the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The guidance can be used when planning: i. early recovery alongside the init...
Guidance material, Training material, Post-Disaster Recovery
Video

Community Based Protection in Liberia

03 Feb 2015
In 2014 Liberia suffered a deadly outbreak of Ebola that spread quickly throughout the country and claimed the lives of more than three thousand people. Although recent weeks have seen a considerable drop in the number of confirmed Ebola cases, Liber...
Video, Communicable Disease
Data set

GAIN – Global Adaptation Index

03 Feb 2015
The ND-GAIN Country Index, developed by the University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN), provides a comprehensive measure of a country’s vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges, alongside its readiness to improve ...
Data set, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Risk Assessment

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