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Zambian Red Cross Society, Vulnerability Capacity Assessment: Sinazongwe District

19 Aug 2013
In 2003, a thorough and well-designed assessment was carried out in Sinazongwe, a district in southern Zambia. The CRA team was composed of staff from the regional IFRC delegation, the Zambian Red Cross Society (ZRCS) and district and local governmen...
Risk Assessment
Case Study

El Salvador, Program for Prevention and Mitigation of Flood Disasters in the Lower Lempa River Basin

19 Aug 2013
The Lower Lempa River Basin in El Salvador is unique in social terms and in the type of flood hazard it faces. During the civil war, this zone was depopulated. After the war, former combatants from both sides were offered land there for resettlement....
Case Study, Flood, Livelihoods and Food Security, Risk Assessment

Rising from the Ashes: Development Strategies in Times of Disaster

19 Aug 2013
Drawing on case histories of emergency relief programs that have successfully promoted development, Anderson and Woodrow offer guidelines for fashioning assistance programs designed to counter the effects of both natural and human-caused disasters. A...
Risk Assessment
Guidance material

Social Vulnerability, Sustainable Livelihoods and Disasters

19 Aug 2013
The need to analyse and prepare for peoples’ vulnerability to natural hazards could be rooted in the sustainable livelihoods (SL) approach, and in development work which aims to reduce the elements of vulnerability that are a result of poverty....
Guidance material, Livelihoods and Food Security, Risk Assessment

Whose reality counts? Putting the first last

19 Aug 2013
In this sequel to Rural Development: Putting the last first Robert Chambers argues that central issues in development have been overlooked, and that many past errors have flowed from domination by those with power. Through analysing experience –...
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
Report

CBDRR Training Materials

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. Collected set of resources on CBDRR https://sites.google.com/site/drrtoolsinsoutheast...
Report

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