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Disaster Risk Reduction: A Front Line Defense against Climate Change and Displacement

09 Feb 2015
“Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is a vital defense against climate change and displacement, particularly in the current context of increasing numbers of disaster-affected persons. In the last two decades, for example, an estimated 200 million pe...
Report, Post-Disaster Recovery, Risk Assessment
Guidance material

IASC Operational Guidelines and Manual on Human Rights and Natural Disasters

09 Feb 2015
In order to provide guidance on how to protect the rights of individuals affected by natural disasters, in June 2006, the UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) adopted Operational Guidelines on Human Rights and Natural Disasters. These guidelines...
Guidance material, Livelihoods and Food Security, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Guidance material

Friendly Neighborhoods: National Societies Guide

06 Feb 2015
“Friendly Neighborhoods” is a methodological approach that seeks to achieve a greater number of more secure environments where creativity, solidarity and dialogue between people who live in the neighborhood are promoted, acknowledging that th...
Guidance material
Guidance material

Guidebook on Creating Resilience Networks: American Red Cross

06 Feb 2015
The Community Resilience Strategy (CRS) is designed to guide American Red Cross domestic staff in engaging their communities to work collaboratively to enhance community resilience and preparedness. The development of the strategy began with an in-d...
Guidance material, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Guidance material, Report

Violence Against Women and Girls Resource Guide: Disaster Risk Management Brief

05 Feb 2015
Abstract: Violence against women and girls (VAWG) has negative impacts on physical and mental health. Health care settings provide a unique opportunity to identify VAWG survivors, provide critical support services, and prevent future harm. Ample stud...
Guidance material, Report, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Report

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

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