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HIV and livelihoods in Africa – What can National Societies do?

08 May 2014
Many experts consider that AIDS is not only a health, political and/or security crisis; it is increasingly being recognized as a livelihood crisis. As a result, support is urgently needed for household and community-based livelihoods activities. By r...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Rwandan Red Cross: Experience in cow rotation

08 May 2014
As part of the national programme, the Rwandan Red Cross has provided for shelter, food security and livelihoods activities, especially for orphans, vulnerable families and returnees. A livestock initiative is one component of the food security and l...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Environmental disaster: Linking partners to tuberculosis prevention around the Aral Sea

08 May 2014
The Aral Sea has shrunk to just one third of its original size over the past three decades, creating a humanitarian disaster for millions of people who live around its shores. As ecological and economic stability have crumbled, thirst, malnutrition a...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Community home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe

08 May 2014
The Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) recognized the increasing vulnerability of households to HIV/AIDS as early as 1988, when it set up the Integrated AIDS Project (IAP). This document describes its home-based care (HBC) programme and recent develop...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Mothers’ club in Togo

08 May 2014
Following the 5th Panafrican Conference, held in Ouagadougou in September 2000, the Togolese Red Cross decided to rethink its activities in order to maximize impact at the community level, in accordance with the ARCHI 2010 initiative (Health Initiati...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Case Study

Strengthening hunger resilience – The Kenya Red Cross experience

08 May 2014
The KRCS in collaboration with the Japanese Red Cross Society and the IFRC launched a nine-month drought recovery project in 2009 to support drought-affected communities in Bangale, Bura and Madogo divisions of Tana North district. This case study ca...
Case Study, Drought, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Tackling malnutrition in Niger

08 May 2014
The Red Cross programmes set up by the French Red Cross in cooperation with the Niger Red Cross support capacity-building for health agents who are trained in the national protocols for the treatment of malnutrition. Under these programmes, integrate...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Guidance material

Accessing climate finance: an overview

07 May 2014
Defined as the biggest challenge of our century, climate change is and will increasingly affect the work of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and other humanitarian organizations. Amongst others, some of its most direct impact are reflect...
Guidance material, Climate Change Adaptation
Case Study

The Access and Use of Climate and Weather Information in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: Initial observations from the field

07 May 2014
In December of 2007 the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute formed a partnership with the Interna­tional Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The Red Cross R...
Case Study, Climate Change Adaptation
Guidance material

IFRC Plan of Action: Climate Change 2013-2016

07 May 2014
While the International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent (IFRC) is already addressing risks brought by climate change, it can do more and better through a more systematic and coordinated integration of climate change issues into its programme...
Guidance material, Climate Change Adaptation

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