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Preguntas frequentes- App Universal en Primeros Auxilios

23 Oct 2014
En Diciembre 2011, la Cruz Roja Británica implementó “Primeros Auxilios por la Cruz Roja Británica”. La App gratuita ofrece un consejo simple y sencillo en 18 escenarios cotidianos en primeros auxilios, así como consejos claves en cómo prepa...
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Foire aux questions – Programme d’Application Universelle des Premiers Secours

23 Oct 2014
Le Programme d’Application Universelle est une initiative financée par le Centre Mondial de Préparation à la Catastrophe (GDPC). Il permet aux Sociétés nationales de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge d’avoir accès à une application prem...
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Research

Flood early warning systems in Nepal: a gendered perspective

21 Oct 2014
This publication captures the findings of a study on flood early warning systems in Nepal that assessed the institutional arrangements, key stakeholders, legal provisions, coordination and linkage mechanisms, and four key elements of early warning sy...
Research, Early Warning Systems, Flood, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
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Urban and Community Resilience Initiative

17 Oct 2014
Scaling urban and community resilience: A strategy for global action This strategy paper outlines the concept for a collective global initiative on urban and community resilience. The goal is to encourage and enable a much greater number of communiti...
Other type of resource, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience
Report, Video

2014 World Disasters Report: Focus on Culture and Risk

16 Oct 2014
The 2014 World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme that looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters and risk influence culture. The report asks, for example, what should be done wh...
Report, Video, Community Engagement and Accountability, Risk Assessment
Assessment or evaluation

Post project impact assessment of DRR interventions in Katakwi, Uganda

04 Oct 2014
From 2010 – 2011 the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS), with support from the American Red Cross (ARC), implemented a disaster risk reduction project (DRR) in the Teso sub-region of Eastern Uganda. Known informally as the “Katakwi DRR Projec...
Assessment or evaluation, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Risk Assessment
Assessment or evaluation, Video

Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2013

26 Sep 2014
The third edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR): “From shared risk to shared value: The business case for disaster risk reduction” is a resource for understanding and analyzing global dis...
Assessment or evaluation, Video, Risk Assessment, Urban Resilience
Case Study

Analysis of legislation related to disaster risk reduction in Brazil

25 Sep 2014
Brazil has in the recent past increased the number of initiatives on disaster risk reduction (DRR). This has been triggered especially by the recent episodes of serious disasters hitting the country, notably floods and landslides, for example, in 2...
Case Study, Disaster Law
Case Study

Analysis of legislation related to disaster risk reduction in the Dominican Republic

25 Sep 2014
The Dominican Republic is the second most vulnerable country in the Caribbean after Haiti, being exposed to tropical storms and hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires and landslides, as well as being at considerable risk from seismic events and ts...
Case Study, Disaster Law
Case Study

Ethiopia: Country Case Study Report / How Law and Regulation Supports Disaster Risk Reduction

25 Sep 2014
Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa, has a total population estimated at 88 million (the third largest population in Africa), and contains over 80 ethnic groups spread over nine regional states and two city administrations, yet des...
Case Study, Disaster Law, Drought

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