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Social Vulnerability, Sustainable Livelihoods and Disasters: Integrating Vulnerability Analysis into Development and Humanitarian Programming

19 Aug 2013
This report, prepared for DFID’s Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Department and Sustainable Livelihoods Support Office, examines the conceptual and practical links between social vulnerability, sustainable livelihoods, and disaster risk re...
Guidance material, Livelihoods and Food Security, Risk Assessment

Whose reality counts? Putting the first last

19 Aug 2013
This influential book by Robert Chambers makes a compelling case that mainstream development practice has systematically failed poor and marginalized communities by privileging the knowledge, methods, and assumptions of outside professionals over the...
Risk Assessment
Report

NSET materials on safe hospitals

17 Aug 2013
Range of materials developed by the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET) on hosital and health facility disaster saftey, including preparedness and risk reduction measures, safe construction practices, and outreach and awarenes...
Report
Report

Participatory 3-Dimensional Mapping For Disaster Risk Reduction: A Field Manual for Practitioners

14 Aug 2013
Manual developed by CAFOD on how to use participatory mapping for community risk assessment. Main report http://www.cafod.org.uk/content/download/10852/86039/file/CAFOD_P3DM_Manual_Small.pdf
Report
Report

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Guide

14 Aug 2013
The guide presents experience from more than 30 Red Cross Red Crescent national socieites in six thematic modules: Getting started, Dialogues, Communications, Disaster management, Community-based disaster risk reduction and Health. Online intro to th...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation
Report

Games for a New Climate: Experiencing the Complexity of Future Risks

14 Aug 2013
Report of a task force at the Pardee Center “to explore the potential of participatory, game-based processes for accelerating learning, fostering dialogue, and promoting action through real-world decisions affecting the longer-range future, with an...
Report
Guidance material, Training material

CBDRR Training Materials – Facilitator’s Guide

14 Aug 2013
A collection of training materials on community based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) collected by the Red Cross Red Crescent national societies in South-East Asia. This facilitator’s guide presents a standardized training curriculum on communi...
Guidance material, Training material
Report

NSET materials on school earthquake preparedness

14 Aug 2013
Range of materials developed by the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET) on school earthquake preparedness, safe school construction, and school preparedness curricula.
Report
Report

World Disasters Report 2010 – Urban Risk

14 Aug 2013
This report highlights a wide overview of data and trends regarding the growing “vulnerability gap†in urban areas. World Disasters Report 2010 – Urban Risk http://www.ifrc.org/en/publications-and-reports/world-disasters-report/wdr2010
Report
Report

State of the World’s Cities – 2012 – 2013

14 Aug 2013
The latest in a series of bi-annual studies on the world’s cities. This edition uses the framework of ‘The Urban Divide’ to analyze the complex social, political, economic and cultural dynamics of urban environments. State of the Worldâ...
Report, Urban Resilience
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