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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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Mapping the knowledge-building of a global network
Avatar photo Nesrine Aouinti 19 Apr 2021
Why are we mapping research? By Nesrine Aouinti, Knowledge Management Fellow: As a member of the Red Cross Red Crescent Research Consortium (RC3), the...
Migrants hit an “invisible wall†in accessing COVID-19 care and vaccines
Avatar photo Nesrine Aouinti 06 Apr 2021
Originally posted on IFRC website: Geneva, 9 March 2021 – A new report released today documents an “invisible wall†that has blocked migrants fr...
Taking large-scale action to raise disaster risk awareness in Albania
Zurich Flood Alliance Jonathan Ulrich 30 Mar 2021
On the latest International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Albanian Red Cross partnered with the National Agency for Civil Protection, the Minis...
Adaptability in Times of Covid-19: Exploring Digital Resilience Building
Zurich Flood Alliance Jonathan Ulrich 26 Mar 2021
Traditional on-site and face-to-face resilience building activities are unavailable to humanitarian and development organizations due to the Coronavir...
New IFRC Report: Alarming Levels of Climate-related Displacement
Avatar photo Nesrine Aouinti 19 Mar 2021
Originally published on the IFRC website on March 16 2021. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) report, Respon...
Ending the Gender Gap in Humanitarian Action.
On the Path to End the Gender Gap in Humanitarian Action
Avatar photo Mira Adam 07 Mar 2021
On the Path to End Gender Gap in Humanitarian Action One of the pressing issues consistently being brought to the floor of discussion is The Gender Ga...
Global Disaster Preparedness Center
2018-2020 GDPC Report Launched
Avatar photo Tassia Stewart 03 Mar 2021
The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) continues to empower disaster risk reduction (DRR ) practitioners around the world through innovation a...
Zurich Flood Alliance
The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance: Global Partnership Local Actions
Zurich Flood Alliance Jonathan Ulrich 01 Mar 2021
Floods affect more people globally than any other type of natural hazard. In the last ten years alone, floods have affected over 734 million people. M...
The Blue Guide To Coastal Resilience, Protecting Coastal Communities Through Nature-based Solutions
Avatar photo Nesrine Aouinti 10 Feb 2021
On February 2, 2021, the Nature Conservancy published The Blue Guide to Coastal Resilience that provides Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) planners aÂ...
Children Coping with COVID-19. Building Resilience in Children with Pedro the Penguin.
Building Resilience with Pedro the Penguin
Avatar photo Tassia Stewart 02 Feb 2021
By Sam Johnson Program Lead, Youth Preparedness, American Red Cross Created by the American Red Cross, Pedro is a penguin who loves learning about h...
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