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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 Index, a project of the University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN), summarizes a country’s vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges in combination with its readiness to improve resilience. It aims...
Data set, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Risk Assessment
Guidance material

Applying resilience thinking: Seven principles for building resilience in social-ecological systems

02 Feb 2015
Over the past decades, few concepts have gained such prominence as resilience, the capacity of a system to deal with change and continue to develop. There has been an explosion of research into ways to promote or undermine the resilience of ...
Guidance material, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Video

Climate Risk Information: Connecting the dots between Maasais, national and international actors

30 Jan 2015
This video exercise is a bottom up participatory process that empowered a Maasai Community to craft and send their message out about their reality and need for climate information. It is an attempt to connect the dots between the ground and the highe...
Video, Climate Change Adaptation
Research

Resilience Projects as Experiments:Implementing climate change resilience in Asian cities

30 Jan 2015
The capacity of actors and institutions to learn and reorganize is central to the resilience of complex systems, particularly in the context of rapidly urbanizing cities. A process of qualitative, reflective research among practitioners within the As...
Research, Climate Change Adaptation
Report

Reducing Urban Poverty – A new generation of ideas

29 Jan 2015
Recognizing a need to develop and strengthen urban-focused practitioner and policy-making ties with academia, and disseminate evidence-based development programming, the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Project, USAID’s Urban ...
Report, Urban Resilience
Report

Acting Today For Tomorrow- Climate Resilient Pacific Islands

26 Jan 2015
Pacific island countries continue to be among the most vulnerable in the world: they combine high exposure to frequent and damaging natural hazards with low capacity to manage the resulting risks. Their vulnerability is exacerbated by poorly planned ...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation

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