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Expect the Unexpected and Facing Fear: Emergency preparedness in schools

07 May 2014
To prepare the population to act safely during unexpected events, the Canadian Red Cross has developed the preparedness program “Expect the Unexpected” to get ready for emergencies. This preparedness program is intended for students, their parent...
Awareness material, Public Awareness and Public Education
Case Study

A diversified approach to fighting food insecurity and rural poverty in Malawi

07 May 2014
The Malawi Red Cross Society introduced an integrated foods security pro­gramme in 2011 in order to contribute to the government’s national strategy on food security. The National Society has been implementing food security projects for over a dec...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Working in partnership in the Americas: Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) at community level in Central America

07 May 2014
In 2004, two members of the ProVention Consortium, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (International Federation) and the Organization of American States (OAS) began implementing the first phase of VCA at community le...
Case Study
Case Study

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

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