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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 […]

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

Avatar photo 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...

Double Jeopardy: Addressing compound flood and heatwave events

Avatar photo 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...

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...

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...

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Avatar photo Nesrine Aouinti 19 Mar 2021
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Avatar photo Jessica Ports Robbins 07 May 2020
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Amod Bhattarai 08 Jan 2016
On April 25, 2015, an earthquake with a magnitude of over 7.8M killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000 in Nepal. This is the sec...
Nepal earthquake: Preparing for an inevitable uncertainty
Amod Bhattarai 21 Dec 2015
On April 25, 2015, an earthquake with a magnitude of over 7.8M killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000 in Nepal. This is the first ...
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