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Mangroves and education reduce disaster risk in Viet Nam

12 May 2014
The Red Cross of Viet Nam, with support from the International Federation, the Japanese Red Cross Society and the Danish Red Cross, has planted mangroves along almost all the coastline where natural conditions allow. Local communities carry out the p...
Case Study, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Public Awareness and Public Education
Case Study

Beneficiary communication, Managing expectations and building trust: A Maldives case study

12 May 2014
The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is working to assist the Maldives to recover from the destruction caused by the December 2004, Indian Ocean Tsunami. In May 2006, with technical support from the South Asia Regi...
Case Study, Communication As Aid
Report

Lake Victoria Programme

12 May 2014
The region around Lake Victoria is prone to disasters such as flooding resulting in homes being washed away and displacement of people, while people who live around the lake and who mainly earn their livelihoods from fishing and farming, suffer from ...
Report
Case Study

Impact and Cost Benefit Analysis: A Case Study of Disaster Risk Reduction Programming In Red Sea State Sudan, 2009

12 May 2014
Red Sea State in Sudan suffers regular droughts which have resulted in increased vulnerability of the indigenous nomadic Beja pastoralist community. Activities that were once coping strategies have become part of normal regular patterns of activity d...
Case Study, Drought
Case Study

Measuring impact and cost benefit: A Sudanese case study

12 May 2014
This case study aims to address calls for more rigorous evidence-based research on the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions at the community-level. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFR...
Case Study
Case Study

Mangrove plantation in Viet Nam: measuring impact and cost benefit

12 May 2014
In an effort to further highlight the impact, efficiency and sustainability of DRR interventions, an external evaluation was conducted on the community-based ‘Mangrove Plantation and Disaster Risk Reduction’ (MP/DRR) project in the disaster prone...
Case Study
Case Study

Community mitigation and awareness raising activities in Central Asia

12 May 2014
This case study provides information on community mitigation and awareness activities undertaken in Central Asia by the Red Crescent Society of Turkmenistan, the Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan and the Red Crescent Society of Uzbekistan.
Case Study
Case Study

Risk reduction in practice: a Philippines case study

12 May 2014
Since 1995, the PNRC has broadened its approach towards more proactive risk reduction. With support from the Danish Red Cross (DRC), PNRC initiated community-based disaster preparedness in five mountain, coastal and urban provinces. Much can be done ...
Case Study
Case Study

Solomon Islands – From risk assessment to community actions

12 May 2014
For many years, the concept of community risk reduction has been a priority in the Red Cross programmes in the Pacific. Some National Societies have, however, been struggling to find an effective way to turn this priority into meaningful community-ba...
Case Study
Case Study

Assessing Quality and Cost Benefit – A Philippines Case Study

12 May 2014
This document includes background on community based disaster risk reduction programming in the Philippines and an overview of a comprehensive recent Quality Impact Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis undertaken to document the impact of that progra...
Case Study

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