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VCA in Large Cities – Capitalization of the scenario for risk management in large cities

07 May 2014
The capitalization analysis that will be developed in this document, centers its interest in the acknowledgement of virtues, rights and wrongs currently existing in the implementation of projects, focused on the reduction of risks in large cities, an...
Case Study, Urban Resilience
Case Study

Palestine Red Crescent Society – reducing risk through VCA

07 May 2014
In 1999-2000, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) embarked on a 6-month VCA, which assessed communities’ perceptions of the hazards most likely to occur, their needs and the resources available to prepare for and mitigate the impacts of these...
Case Study
Case Study

Using the vulnerability and capacity assessment tool in Rwanda

07 May 2014
This case study recounts the experience of the Rwandan Red Cross with the vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA) tool. The aim of this study is to describe the approach adopted by the Rwandan Red Cross and to share the lessons it learned from th...
Case Study
Guidance material

VCA Lessons Learned and Recommendations

07 May 2014
Vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA) has become widely used by many National Societies over the past ten years. Between 2003 and 2005, the VCA process was evaluated and revised by the International Federation’s secretariat. In 2005, Nation...
Guidance material
Guidance material

A practical step by step guide VCA for Red Cross Red Crescent practitioners and volunteers

07 May 2014
The VCA is a key element of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ (International Federation) disaster management systems. With support from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) and t...
Guidance material
Guidance material

What is a VCA?

07 May 2014
This booklet is a new edition of VCA: a Federation Guide and shows some of the progress made in the use of VCA since the guide was first published in 1999. It illustrates how programmes can be better integrated with other projects so that they suppor...
Guidance material
Guidance material

VCA toolbox

07 May 2014
This toolbox provides a detailed explanation on how to undertake the research part of a VCA. It will help you to choose the right tools to suit your purpose and describes when and how to use them and what to do with the information collected. Publish...
Guidance material
Guidance material

VCA training guide

07 May 2014
The purpose of this training guide is to provide VCA facilitators with the necessary tools to train those who will be implementing the actual VCA. It is designed to enable volunteers with little or no experience of community-based participatory infor...
Guidance material
Awareness material

Better be prepared: Education, Organization and Preparation for Risk Reduction

07 May 2014
The “Better Be Prepared†series is made up of 14 modules which have been drawn up in the Regional Centre of Reference in Community-Based Education for the Prevention of Disasters with the support of the International Federation of Red Cross Red C...
Awareness material, Public Awareness and Public Education
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برنامج التطبيق الشامل: الإسعاÙات الأولية أسئلة وأجوبة

30 Apr 2014
يمكن لمستخدمي التطبيق النقر على ا ربط التبرع الذي سينقلهم إلى صÙحة التبرّع الخاصة بالجمعية الوطنية أو إلى خدمة ارسال النصوص للتبرّع. بالØ...
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