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Heat Action Day 2025 – Activities to #BeatTheHeat all around the World
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
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...
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 Protoc...
Double Jeopardy: Addressing compound flood and heatwave events
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
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
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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28 Nov 2014
Obstacles in daily life and especially in crises, are shared by all. With its countless mountains and rivers and a meandering coast, Vietnam is one of...
18 Nov 2014
There is no universal understanding of risk. For most people it is perceived through the lens of culture, including social and religious beliefs. Vide...
18 Nov 2014
“In the absence of the play-spirit, civilization is impossible.†Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens, 1938. Game play can be deadly earnest. Nations stake...
18 Nov 2014
“The water level is rising. The area we used to work, we can’t work any more” – Silas Kere, farmer. The Solomon Islands, part of t...
18 Nov 2014
Old Wisdom, Old Respect, Old Vulnerability: 2014 is dedicated to the elderly around the world. October 13th is the International Day for Disaster Red...
17 Nov 2014
Every year around two dozen typhoons sweep through the Philippines. Dramatic footage: Moment Typhoon Haiyan washes away Philippines house Video of Dr...
25 Aug 2014
In the Greater Chicago Region of the American Red Cross we have been running a fire preparedness and mitigation program called Team Firestopper (TFS) ...
30 Jul 2014
When you live in a valley surrounded by mountains, you see everything coming. For the past few years, we feared tanks and troops. This time was differ...
30 Jul 2014
In the aftermath of the hurricanes Ingrid and Manuel (September 2013) thousands of families in Mexico lost their houses, possessions and even their lo...
28 Jul 2014
For those living in border communities in Latin America, access to emergency services can be tenuous to non-existent. Where there are assets or pre-...