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Case Study

Landslide early warning in Costa Rica

07 May 2014
Following a number of landslides in August 2002, the International Federation, supported by the Regional Delegation in Central America, obtained funding from the British government to implement an early warning system in the event of future landslide...
Case Study, Early Warning Systems, Landslide
Case Study

Mozambique: cyclone early warning system in practice

07 May 2014
In 2000 and 2001, severe floods struck large areas of Mozambique. The devastating impact of the flooding, and the relative lack of disaster preparedness among affected communities, provided the impetus and the opportunity for the Mozambique Red Cross...
Case Study, Early Warning Systems
Case Study

Harmonizing learning in Central America

07 May 2014
The Regional Disaster Preparedness Reference Centre in El Salvador was created in 2005 to improve the capacity, quality and effectiveness of National Societies’ disaster response in the Central America region. The centre is responsible for coordina...
Case Study, Public Awareness and Public Education
Awareness material

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

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