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Translating Warnings into Action – How we can Improve Early Warning Systems to Protect Communities

24 Apr 2023
Early warnings for hazards are essential for living safely and minimizing economic losses. For many hazards, it is possible to give advance notice and accurate information to help communities prepare and respond. However, issuance of the warning ...
Awareness material, Report, Community Engagement and Accountability, Early Warning Systems, Hazard, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Volcano
Awareness material

Warning Briefing Note: Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems

24 Apr 2023
For warning systems to be most comprehensive they need to be multi-hazard and operate across many stakeholders to integrate hazard and risk knowledge. This Warnings Briefing Note, supported by the Global Disaster Preparedness Center/IFRC and produc...
Awareness material, Early Warning Systems, Hazard
Case Study

Traverse: an Australian Red Cross case study of the creation, design, and end of a digital identity platform

24 Apr 2023
There is a long-standing challenge within the humanitarian sector – the slow process of onboarding and managing staff and volunteers for rapid deployment during a crisis. Australian Red Cross led an effort to solve this by establishing a verifiable...
Case Study, Infrastructure and Services

Urban heat stress in Indonesia (1983-2016)

10 Apr 2023
Urban heat stress in Indonesia (1983 – 2016) Executive summary This study is carried out by Carolina Pereira Marghidan from the RCRC Climate Centre Existing research has provided evidence that Indonesia has suffered lost work hours from heat st...
Awareness material

Warnings Briefing Note: Mobile-based Early Warning Systems for Effective and Inclusive Alerting

06 Apr 2023
With 3 out of 4 people owning a mobile phone (in 2022), mobile networks have become a powerful communication channel to alert populations about an imminent hazard. Despite this, many countries have yet to implement a mobile-based Early Warning System...
Awareness material, Early Warning Systems
Awareness material

Warnings Briefing Note: False Alarms and Near Misses

06 Apr 2023
False alarms and near misses can erode public trust in weather warnings, which may lead to people becoming less responsive to actual risks. However, false alarms and near misses can also be used to increase public awareness and improve risk assessmen...
Awareness material, Early Warning Systems
Awareness material

Warnings Briefing Note: Community-based early warning systems

06 Apr 2023
Community-based early warning systems (CBEWS) provide community members with the information they need to assess the risk they are facing and make decisions to protect their lives and livelihoods. CBEWS are essential for achieving “early warning fo...
Awareness material, Early Warning Systems
Report, Research

Chatbots in humanitarian contexts: Learning from practitioner experiences

06 Apr 2023
In recent years, chatbots have offered humanitarian operations the possibility to automate personalised engagement and support, inform tailored programme design and gather and share information at a large scale. However, adopting a chatbot is never...
Report, Research, Mobile Technology
Guidance material

Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats: The impact on breastfeeding safety and infant/young child feeding

06 Apr 2023
CBRN emergencies are among the most alarming threats facing the world today. In modern warfare, there is increased risk of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons exposure and of nuclear emergencies due to damage to nuclear pow...
Guidance material, Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Report

Compendium of multi-hazard early warning cooperation

04 Apr 2023
This compendium of multi-hazard early warning cooperation will capitalize on recent publications to identify county-specific challenges and note good practices cooperation arrangements to strengthen forecasting capabilities, early warning coverage, a...
Report, Early Warning Systems

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