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Case Study

Winter shelters for rural herder communities

12 Feb 2019
Mongolian Red Cross Society (MRCS) has been implementing a community-based disaster risk reduction project since 2014, with support from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Australian Red Cross. The h...
Case Study, Risk Assessment
Case Study

The Role of Businesses in Community Recovery

11 Feb 2019
Business play a vital role in supporting community recovery following a disaster and maintaining operations during an extreme event is fundamental to community resilience. Businesses that stay open or reopen quickly provide much needed services and e...
Case Study, Business Preparedness, Flood
Case Study

Why Small Businesses Should Invest in Preparedness

11 Feb 2019
Disasters can have profound impacts on businesses. 40% to 60% of small businesses fail to reopen after a disaster. For many businesses, potential impacts from disasters include direct physical impacts from extreme events as well as more indirect impa...
Case Study, Business Preparedness, Flood
Report

CAP Editor Operations Guide

02 Feb 2019
This document concerns administrative operations for running the “CAP Editor” freeware. CAP Editor is a tool for creating and publishing emergency alerts in the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) format. CAP Editor runs on the Amazon Web Serv...
Report, Early Warning Systems
Report

CAP Editor User Interface Language Template

01 Feb 2019
This document provides an example template for the particular phrases (about 1,000 words total) that must be translated to enable the CAP Editor to customize its user interface. Translations to the new language are indicated by replacing the entries ...
Report, Early Warning Systems
Report

CAP Editor Preview Notes

01 Feb 2019
This document annotates a screen-by-screen preview of the CAP Editor freeware, as it would be seen by a person authenticated in the role of “composer” or “approver”.
Report, Early Warning Systems
Report

CAP Editor Message Templates

01 Feb 2019
CAP Editor presents a link to CAP alert message templates in HTML that provide text suggestions for the “headline”, “description” and “instruction” elements of a CAP alert. These CAP alert message templates address...
Report, Early Warning Systems
Report

Delivering Public Warnings Online and to Mobile Devices (CAP Flyer)

01 Feb 2019
This two-page flyer explains how public warning messages can be delivered quickly and at low cost to people online and on mobile devices—without requiring major new investments in specialized broadcast technology. It highlights examples of digital ...
Report, Early Warning Systems
Report

Economic Losses, Poverty and Disasters 1998-2017

16 Jan 2019
This report published by the UNISDR gives an excellent analysis of economic lossess due to disasters. Between 1998 and 2017 climate-related and geophysical disasters killed 1.3 million people and left a further 4.4 billion injured, homeless, displace...
Report, Post-Disaster Recovery, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Report

The State of Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements 2018

10 Jan 2019
The aim of this report is to raise the profile and provide a better understanding of the humanitarian shelter and settlements sector. This report is intended to be used by humanitarian policy makers, donors, governments, academics and senior managers...
Report, Urban Resilience

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