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Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Good Practice (Mercy Corps)

04 Oct 2013
Based on its own learning, continual community feed-back, and a real-time evaluation during the September 2008 flood in the Far-Western Development Region of Nepal, Mercy Corps has identified 10 areas of good practice for community-based disaster r...
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GDPC Assessment Report

04 Oct 2013
Report completed in May 2012 highlighting the results of the 9 months long assessment process undertaken by the American Red Cross to inform the conceptualization and development of the Global Disaster Preparedenss Center. During the assessment, the ...
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Disaster Risk Reduction Programme: Summary of Lessons Learned and Recommendations

03 Oct 2013
Between 2001 and 2008, the IFRC in partnership with the British Red Cross implemented a Disaster Reduction Programme with various National Societies in disaster-prone countries in East and Southern Africa and in South Asia. In the end, the programme ...
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Understanding community resilience and program factors that strengthen them: A comprehensive study of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies tsunami operation

03 Oct 2013
Between October 2010 and September 2011, the IFRC commissioned an in-depth study of CBDRR programmes implemented as part of its tsunami operation. This study was carried out by ARUP International Development and sough to to answer key questions on CB...
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Building Strong National Societies: Our common endeavour. A comprehensive framework

03 Oct 2013
The IFRC has put together this document to outline a framework to make National Soceities strong. A strong National Society is one that is able to deliver country-wide, through a network of volutneer-based units, a relevant service to vulnerable peop...
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Review of Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) use in relation to climate change and urban risk issues

03 Oct 2013
This report was commissioned by the IFRC to re-examine the Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment process in the context of increased institutional experience in using VCA, along with changing risk patterns. In particular the review is to assess the r...
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Review of ten vulnerability and capacity assessments: Central America and Mexico

03 Oct 2013
The IFRC conducted a study to identify the main trends arising out of different VCAs in order to better understand some common themes in teh challenges being faced and identify the main obstacles that volunteers from teh Red Cross Societies may encou...
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Review of the implementation of the vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA) methodology in the Caribbean region

03 Oct 2013
This Review Report focuses on the Caribbean region, and aims to explain the process and methodology used for community-based disaster management (CBDM) activities, with emphasis on the vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA) and whether new ris...
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AVC in Large Cities: Capitalization of the Scenario for Risk Management in Large Cities

03 Oct 2013
The capitalization that will be developed in this document, centers its interest in the acknowledge of virtues, rights and wrongs currently existing in the implementation of projects, focused on the reduction of risks in large cities, and the imple...
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IFRC Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment Training Review

03 Oct 2013
Vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA) is a key element of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Societies’ (International Federation) disaster management systems. With support from the United Kingdom’s Department for Internati...
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