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Building Urban Resilience workshop: Bangkok, Thailand

20 Oct 2013
With support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) brought together more than 40 participants from eight Red Cross/Red Crescent ...
Report, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Guidelines for Relief Activities under Nuclear Disasters

18 Oct 2013
The Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) has published this set of “Guidelines for Relief Activities under Nuclear Disasters”. According to the guidelines, JRCS will conduct relief activities outside of the area restricted by the national/lo...
Guidance material, Technological hazard
Guidance material

原子力災害における救護活動マニュアル

18 Oct 2013
日本赤十字社(以下、「日赤」)は、「原子力災害における救護活動マニュアル」を作成し、警戒区域外で活動する一般の災害救護に携わる救護班に許容される累積被ばく線量を1ミリシ...
Guidance material, Technological hazard
Case Study

Impact of mudflows reduced through partnerships – Tajikistan

14 Oct 2013
This video focuses on a case study from Tajikistan where heavy mudflows ravaged a village but the mobilised community was prepared and able to reduce the risk of disaster in their area. One in a series of video case studies created by the Global Netw...
Case Study, Flood, Landslide
Case Study

DRR progress is slow – Bangladesh

14 Oct 2013
This video focuses on a case study from Bangladesh where people in the coastal village of Ghoserat, exposed to floods and storms, are starting to talk about the disaster risks they face. However they need education and financial resources to do more....
Case Study

Texts from the Frontline

14 Oct 2013
The Global Network for Disaster Reduction has undertaken SMS text-based surveys to expand the pool of input for identifying people’s perceptions of progress in Disaster Reduction in various countries world-wide as part of the Views from the Frontli...
Communication As Aid
Case Study

Participatory budgeting inspires community projects – Venezuela

14 Oct 2013
This video focuses on a case study of how the Sucre municipality in Venezuela has supported communities in designing and managing their own projects through a participatory budgeting initiative called “Rumobo Propio” and the provision of ...
Case Study
Case Study

Participatory strategic planning – Brazil

14 Oct 2013
This video focuses on a case study of how the residents of ‘Territorio de Bem’ in Brazil used community-led strategic planning to solve their waste disposal problem, promote environmental education, and gain new space for recreation. The initiati...
Case Study, Flood
Report

Risk and Opportunity, Managing Risk for Development

14 Oct 2013
The World Disaster Report (WDR 2014) argues that risk management can be a powerful instrument for development—not only by building people’s resilience and thus reducing the effects of adverse events but also by allowing them to take advantage...
Report, Urban Resilience
Report

World Disaster Report 2010: Urban Risk

14 Oct 2013
© International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2010 IFRC World Disaster Reports http://www.ifrc.org/en/publications-and-reports/world-disasters-report/wdr2010/
Report, Urban Resilience
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