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Unpacking the Summer: Learning About Heat in Adelaide

Avatar photo Cale Johnstone 21 Jul 2025
Listening Over Coffee: Stories Behind the Data  The Post-Event Review Capability (PERC), developed by the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance, offers ...

From Assessment to Action: A New Tool to Support Urban Resilience

Avatar photo Vladislav Kovalevski 15 Jul 2025
Cities around the world are stepping up efforts to reduce disaster risk and build resilience. While many tools help identify vulnerabilities, the chal...

Community-First Approach: How the American Red Cross Helps Build Disaster Resilience Where It’s Needed Most

Global Disaster Preparedness Center 14 Jul 2025
Across the United States, the American Red Cross is working to reduce disaster risks and strengthen the long-term resilience of the most vulnerable co...

Scorched Future: The Rising Toll of Extreme Heat in the Philippines

Avatar photo Cale Johnstone 03 Jul 2025
  Authors: Mia Grace Ligutan, Seth Sarmiento, Steven Villena, Cale Johnstone Rising temperatures in the Philippines, particularly in urban areas ...

Heat Action Day 2025 – Activities to #BeatTheHeat all around the World

Avatar photo Aynur Kadihasanoglu 01 Jul 2025
On Monday, June 2, 2025, we celebrated the 4th edition of Heat Action Day (HAD). As the impact of Heat Action Day spreads, our influence is a joy to q...

Strengthening Risk Governance from the Ground Up: Nepal’s MDRGA Tool in Action

Avatar photo Cale Johnstone 30 Apr 2025
Authors: Bhesh Parajuli | Cale Johnstone | Anil Rai Local Solutions for Local Risks Disaster risk is most acutely felt—and most effectively managedâ...

Telecross Redi: Heatwave Service

Avatar photo Mira Adam 17 Apr 2025
Extreme weather events pose significant risks to vulnerable populations, especially those who are isolated or have underlying health conditions. In re...

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

Jeanne Crump 28 Feb 2025
Anticipatory action is expanding and being mainstreamed across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. As National Societies add more Early Action Protoc...

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...

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Disaster Preparedness: Lessons Learned from the LAC region
Avatar photo Miguel Aguirre 10 Oct 2019
As part of the project “LARRA Actividades de Reducción de Riesgo de Latinoamérica,” the American Red Cross in coordination with the Nat...
Girls prepared to mitigate the impact of disasters
Avatar photo Miguel Aguirre 07 Oct 2019
“I volunteer because I love learning lifesaving skills. This is how I can support my community,†remarks Tarin Akther from her school in Banglades...
Volunteers ensure disaster preparedness actions
Volunteers ensure disaster preparedness actions
Avatar photo Miguel Aguirre 23 Aug 2019
“Each and every person here has huge potential. We just have to bring it out,†says Harun al Rashid—an American Red Cross staff member traini...
Cox’s Bazar: Symbols of Strength in the Displacement Camp
Cox’s Bazar: Symbols of Strength in the Displacement Camp
Avatar photo Miguel Aguirre 16 Aug 2019
Over the past two years, more than 700,000 people have fled Rakhine State, Myanmar to seek safety in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Many arrived injured, ...
Health and Climate Change: Taking Care of the Humanity at +2°C
Avatar photo Miguel Aguirre 24 Apr 2019
Originally publish on March 2019. View The World conference on Health and Climate Change organised by the French Red Cross took place in Cannes on 15 ...
Mozambique: Cyclone Idai
Avatar photo Miguel Aguirre 23 Apr 2019
Originally shared by IFRC – 26 March 2019 Cyclone Idai made landfall on the evening of 14/15 March, 2019 near the central Mozambican city of ...
Make Way for Ducklings…with help from an OWL
Lawrence Olsen 05 Mar 2019
Image credits: IBM Call for Code, 2018. An OWL has brought together a cluster of ducklings and their mother to quickly form ad hoc communications ne...
Bangladesh: Off-line radio keeps people from Rakhine in the know
Avatar photo Miguel Aguirre 13 Feb 2019
Originally posted on 20 Dec 2018 by Farjana Sultana, IFRC. View Nurul Islam, 10, helps his older brother in the small family shop they run next ...
Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather Top List of Most Likely and Impactful Risks in Next 10 Years
Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather Top List of Most Likely and Impactful Risks in Next 10 Years
Valerie Byer 17 Dec 2018
Natural disasters are among the greatest risks the world will face in the next 10 years, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Re...
Reaching the last mile – Early Action Messaging through the WhatNow Service
Reaching the last mile – Early Action Messaging through the WhatNow Service
Valerie Byer 14 Nov 2018
At the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management ( or “ISCRAM”) Asia Pacific Conference last week, disaster industry professi...
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