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ABC of VCA

17 Dec 2014
Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) uses various participatory tools to gauge peoples exposure to and capacity to resist natural hazards. It is an integral part of disaster preparedness and contributes to the creation of community-based disas...
Video
Research

A Global Dialogue on Emerging Technology for Emerging Needs

16 Dec 2014
The Red Cross/Red Crescent is facilitating a two-year technology initiative to collaboratively explore, inform and adapt emerging solutions to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable urban communities. We will collaborate with a diverse range of stak...
Research, Urban Resilience
Video

Can we build disaster resilient communities? Gregory Kopp at TEDxWesternU

16 Dec 2014
Gregory Kopp, a Canada Research Chair, shares stories of storm chasing and the results of his ongoing research on how to build disaster-resilient communities. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events t...
Video, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Video

From disaster response to disaster prevention: Rachel Kyte at TEDxSendai

16 Dec 2014
As Vice President of Sustainable Development, Rachel leads the Bank’s global work in agriculture, environment, energy, infrastructure, urban, and social development, as well as global public goods issues in those areas. Before assuming this pos...
Video, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Video

Dream location or disaster risk? Radhika Murti

16 Dec 2014
Radhika asks: How are risks informing your choices — of home or holiday destination? Are you informed about past disasters and their probability in the future? And what are you doing to reduce the risk of natural hazards turning your dream loca...
Video, Urban Resilience
Case Study, Guidance material, Video

Resilience: Surfing the Waves of Change

16 Dec 2014
This book gathers a mix of experience and academic insight into how local communities are learning how to cope – and even thrive – through difficult times. Written in an accessible style its stories highlight experience from Cumbria to the Sc...
Case Study, Guidance material, Video, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Video

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) – Educational Animation Cartoon

16 Dec 2014
Educational Animation Cartoon on Disaster risk reduction. Save the Children
Video, Youth Disaster Preparedness
Guidance material

Integrating climate change and urban risks into the VCA

15 Dec 2014
These guidelines have been developed to specifically address two key recommendations that have emerged from the Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) review; these are to provide further guidance to National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies...
Guidance material, Climate Change Adaptation
Report

Global Climate Risk Index 2015

15 Dec 2014
The Global Climate Risk Index 2015 analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). The most recent data available – from 2013 and 1994–2013 – were taken int...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation
Video

WHO: Mental Health

15 Dec 2014
One in four people will suffer a mental, neurological, or substance use disorder at some point in their life; yet many cannot get access to basic medicines or basic mental health care. The mental health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) asserts that with ...
Video, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Public Awareness and Public Education

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