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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
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Double Jeopardy: Addressing compound flood and heatwave events
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
Preparedness for winter weather and response by National Societies in Europe and Central Asia
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
Dominica Building Resilience Through Community Early Warning Systems
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
How GADRRRES Strengthens Global Resilience in the Education Sector Through the Comprehensive School Safety Framework
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
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
Preparedness for winter weather and response by National Societies in Europe and Central Asia
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
Dominica Building Resilience Through Community Early Warning Systems
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
How GADRRRES Strengthens Global Resilience in the Education Sector Through the Comprehensive School Safety Framework
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
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
Preparedness for winter weather and response by National Societies in Europe and Central Asia
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
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Originally published on the IFRC website on March 16 2021. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) report, Respon...
Tags: Climate Change Adaptation, COVID-19 (Coronavirus), Drought, Earthquake, Flood, Landslide, Tsunami
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