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Global food security assessment guidelines. A step-by-step guide for National Societies

23 Dec 2014
This guide aims to assist National Society staff and volunteers throughout the world in undertaking food security assessments. It does not require prior knowledge or experience of food security. The guide is a practical tool related to the Food s...
Guidance material, Livelihoods and Food Security
Other type of resource

Policy Brief: Disaster Risk Reduction in Urban Areas

23 Dec 2014
In the context of urbanisation, disaster risk increases as a result of badly planned and managed urban development, degraded ecosystems and poverty. The Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) processes developed in several Latin American cities show the be...
Other type of resource, Urban Resilience
Case Study, Report

Community-led partnerships for resilience

23 Dec 2014
Organized communities living and working in hazard prone settlements bring perspectives and priorities to policy discussions that are distinct from the rest of civil society. This report documents a number of case studies where grassroots women’s o...
Case Study, Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Case Study

Disaster Preparedness for Safer School Project, Bangladesh

19 Dec 2014
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world and typically affected by disasters including floods, cyclones, river erosion, drought, tornadoes, landslides, and earthquakes. School children are considered the most vulnerable pop...
Case Study, Urban Resilience
Case Study

Disaster Preparedness for Safer School Project, Nepal

19 Dec 2014
Nepal is ranked the eleventh most at risk country with regard to earthquakes, and the thirtieth with respect to floods. The communities also suffered from other disasters such as fires, windstorm, thunderstorms and landslides. Having implemented sinc...
Case Study, Urban Resilience
Report

Report on Early Warning for Technological Hazards

19 Dec 2014
Technological hazards are an increasing source of risk to people and their environment. This is an effect of the globalization of production, an increase of industrialization and a certain level of risk of accidents connected with production, proce...
Report, Early Warning Systems, Technological hazard
Report

Harnessing Urbanization to End Poverty and Boost Prosperity in Africa- World Bank

19 Dec 2014
Urbanization is the single most important transformation that the African continent will undergo this century. More than half of Africa’s population will live in its cities by 2040. Well-managed urbanization has the potential to propel growth, e...
Report, Urban Resilience
Case Study

Neighborhood Empowerment Network – San Francisco

18 Dec 2014
In 2007, an alliance of residents, neighborhood and merchant associations, non profits and faith based organizations, foundations and academic institutions was created around a simple mission, empowering the neighborhoods of San Francisco with the ca...
Case Study, Urban Resilience
Video

Paper City: Urban Story

18 Dec 2014
As part of its Urban October celebrations, UN-Habitat has launched “Paper City”, a stop-motion video animation portraying today’s urban challenges using a paper and cardboard mock city. Aimed at an audience not yet familiar with urbanization pr...
Video, Infrastructure and Services, Urban Resilience
Video

Huracanes: Como construir una casa de madera más segura

18 Dec 2014
La Cruz Roja capacita constructores en el uso de técnicas de resistencia a huracanes para la construcción de casas de madera más seguras para una vida mejor.
Video, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone

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