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Community Action in Disaster Response Training of Trainer program in South/Southeast Asia

29 Oct 2013
For those interested in community response teams, check out the Community Action in Disaster Response program implemented in 10 countries in Asia, where the Asia Disaster Preparedness Center is working with Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in a ...
Report

Mobilisierung des Privatsektors zur katastrophenpräventiven Anpassung an den Klimawandel

29 Oct 2013
This report examines the approaches small and mediums sized entreprises take to adapt to climate change impact, and analyses more in depth the enabling factors for climate change adaptation. Link to document http://www.dkkv.org/DE/publications/ress...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation

Adaptive Disaster Risk Reduction. Enhancing Methods and Tools of Disaster Risk Reduction in the light of Climate Change

29 Oct 2013
The report presents recommendations to strengthen the linkages between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction through improving DRR tools and approaches for an enhanced adaptation to climate change impacts. Link to document http://ww...
Climate Change Adaptation
Guidance material

Red Cross Red Crescent Reference Center on Volunteering

29 Oct 2013
The main purpose of the Reference Centre is to act as a resource on volunteering to Red Cross Red Crescent (RC/RC) national societies in Europe through research and sharing of information, the development of good practice models and tools, signpostin...
Guidance material
Guidance material

Managing Spontaneous Volunteers in Times of Disaster: The Synergy of Structure and Good Intentions

29 Oct 2013
In 2002-03 UPS, the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network, FEMA and the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) coalition convened a set of partner organizations to review the challenges and oppor...
Guidance material
Guidance material

Global food security assessment guidelines

29 Oct 2013
This guide aims to assist Red Cross Red Crescent National Society and NGO staff and volunteers throughout the world in undertaking food security assessments. It does not require prior knowledge or experience of food security. The guide covers the d...
Guidance material, Livelihoods and Food Security
Assessment or evaluation

International Food Security Assessment, 2013-2023

29 Oct 2013
By 2023, the number of food-insecure people in the 76 countries included in this report is projected to increase nearly 23 percent to 868 million, slightly faster than population growth. The distribution gap—the amount of additional food need...
Assessment or evaluation, Livelihoods and Food Security
Guidance material

Minimum Standards in Food Security and Nutrition

29 Oct 2013
Access to food and the maintenance of an adequate nutritional status are critical determinants of people’s survival in a disaster. Ultimately better food security and nutrition in disaster response is achieved through better preparedness. These...
Guidance material, Livelihoods and Food Security
Assessment or evaluation

Disaster preparedness for natural hazards: current status in Nepal

27 Oct 2013
This publication is one of a series produced under the project ‘Living with risk – sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region’, implemented by ICIMOD during a 15-month period in 2006 and 2007. Through this project, IC...
Assessment or evaluation, Earthquake, Flood
Guidance material

Drought tips from FEMA

27 Oct 2013
A set of tips on drought preparedness put together by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the United States. While many of the tips may be US specific, some can be readily adapted to other country contexts. FEMA. http://www.ready.gov/drought h...
Guidance material, Drought

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