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Stories are ways for users like you to connect directly with the community. By encouraging our users to tell their Story we hope to provide a space where people can share their good practices, solutions, and lessons directly from the field. These practices aren’t always easily captured by traditional or quantitative methods, but can provide inspiration to other community members working in similar disaster preparedness areas. Read up on other people’s experiences by browsing through the content below, or contribute your own Story.

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Community members in Bangladesh take part in a disaster preparedness drill, carrying the Bangladesh Red Crescent and national flags through a flooded area. The exercise highlights the role of anticipatory action and pre-financing in enabling swift early response to coastal hazards.

Pre-Financing Anticipatory Action: A Practical Guide for National Societies

28 Feb 2025

Anticipatory action is expanding and being mainstreamed across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. As National Societies add more Early Action Protocols (EAPs) and scale up their anticipatory action programming, developing an anticipatory action pre-financing strategy is essential to ensuring timely and effective implementation. The window for anticipatory action is a critical period when humanitarian organizations can act to reduce the impact of an impending disaster. To ensure timely action, funding is needed early in this window. However, financial transfer […]

Tags: Guidance material, Report, Anticipatory action, Disaster Risk Financing

Tolosa, Leyte, Philippines9/3/2015Children from Tanghas Elementary School show off their new Red Cross backpacks. The students continue to enjoy their school, repaired with funds from the American Red Cross in 2014 in partnership with the Spanish Red Cross. Children received backpacks full of supplies to start the school year. The Red Cross installed hand water pumps, constructed six new latrines, and repaired classrooms that were badly damaged by Typhoon Haiyan. Even though it was ravaged by high winds and fallen coconut trees, about 20 families used the school as a shelter in the aftermath of the typhoon. One hundred and thirty-two students, from kindergarten to sixth grade, attend Tanghas Elementary School. The school’s five teachers all survived the storm and returned to teach this year. All the surrounding schools are full, so if this one wasn’t able to reopen, they’d have nowhere else to get their education. The Red Cross trains local people on carpentry, plumping, electrical and construction skills and then pays them to repair schools like Tanghas Elementary.“Without the Red Cross repairing the school, I don’t know what would happen to our children,” said school official, Noresita A. Go. This project is in collaboration with the Spanish Red Cross.

How GADRRRES Strengthens Global Resilience in the Education Sector Through the Comprehensive School Safety Framework

Rita Ewing 17 Mar 2025

Background Every child has the right to an education and should be allowed to learn in a safe environment. Worldwide, disasters, emergencies, shocks a...

Tags: Communication As Aid, Community Engagement and Accountability, Early Warning Systems, Flood, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Landslide, Public Awareness and Public Education, Risk Assessment

Double Jeopardy: Addressing compound flood and heatwave events

Cale Johnstone 20 Feb 2025

Compound events, such as floods and heatwaves occurring in close succession or simultaneously, can interact in a way that creates more severe outcomes...

Tags: Flood, Heat Wave, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management

Croatia, February, 2018
The end of winter is seeing rare but not unprecedented weather conditions, with the extended cold spell in much of Europe alongside unusually high temperatures in the Arctic,
Red Cross teams reach isolated elderly cut off by snow.

Preparedness for winter weather and response by National Societies in Europe and Central Asia

Global Disaster Preparedness Center 13 Jan 2025

This briefing note outlines common winter weather hazards experienced across Europe and Central Asia, and the ways in which National Societies are pre...

Tags: Briefs and Fact Sheets, Case Study, Anticipatory action, Cold wave / dzud, Public Awareness and Public Education

The Dominica Red Cross trains and helps form Community Disaster Response Teams to enhance resilience, promote disaster risk reduction, and strengthen early warning initiatives within communities.

Dominica Building Resilience Through Community Early Warning Systems

Sarita Maurya 04 Sep 2024

Setting the Scene Dominica is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, the impacts of which have already been experienced wh...

Tags: Communication As Aid, Community Engagement and Accountability, Early Warning Systems, Flood, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Landslide, Public Awareness and Public Education, Risk Assessment

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Digital mapping the cities and communities to understand risks and vulnerabilities

Aynur Kadihasanoglu 20 Apr 2024

Around ending of December to January month as a way of complimenting the achievements of the previous City-Wide Risk Assessment Tanzania Red Cross Soc...

Tags: Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change Adaptation, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Risk Assessment, Urban Preparedness

Upskilling for Resilience: A Guide to Free Online Disaster Preparedness Training

Mira Adam 07 Apr 2024

As disasters continue to challenge communities worldwide, it is crucial for disaster management practitioners to stay up-to-date with the latest knowl...

Tags: Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Public Awareness and Public Education, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management

Never stop learning: ten years of the Flood Resilience Alliance in Mexico

Cale Johnstone 29 Sep 2023

At the heart of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance’s work is the knowledge that there are always opportunities to adapt and improve. In the se...

Tags: Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Community Engagement and Accountability, Flood, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Preparedness

Putting communities in the driver seat: Good practices from the Philippines

Jonathan Ulrich 12 Jun 2023

In the spirit of the localization agenda, the flood resilience project of the Philippine Red Cross accompanies, enables, and connects communities to b...

Tags: Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Community Engagement and Accountability, Flood, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Risk Assessment

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Pre-Financing Anticipatory Action: A Practical Guide for National Societies

How GADRRRES Strengthens Global Resilience in the Education Sector Through the Comprehensive School Safety Framework

Double Jeopardy: Addressing compound flood and heatwave events

Preparedness for winter weather and response by National Societies in Europe and Central Asia

Dominica Building Resilience Through Community Early Warning Systems

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How GADRRRES Strengthens Global Resilience in the Education Sector Through the Comprehensive School Safety Framework

Double Jeopardy: Addressing compound flood and heatwave events

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