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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...
Telecross Redi: Heatwave Service
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
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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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...
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...
05 Jan 2021
New DATA READINESS TOOLKIT aims to build data competencies across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) h...
05 Jan 2021
By Sam Johnson Program Lead, Youth Preparedness, American Red Cross Now more than ever, it’s critical we have open conversations with the children i...
20 Nov 2020
On November 17, 2020 The IFRC launched the 2020 World Disasters Report, titled “Come Heat or High Water: Tackling the humanitarian impacts of th...
07 Nov 2020
The Asia Pacific Urban Community Resilience Hub, is pleased to announce the winners of the 1st Urban Community Resilience Small Grant Initiative: Paki...
28 Sep 2020
Preserving the four principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence, generally referred to as the humanitarian principles, is vital...
18 Sep 2020
Creating lifesaving impact is the ultimate goal of any humanitarian organization, and this is especially true for the 192 National Societies that make...
11 Aug 2020
October, 8 – 11, 2018 Jose Bonilla, Institutional Preparedness Advisor, and Roberto Brito, Director for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Amer...
30 Jun 2020
'Delay and pay, or plan and prosper', is the crystal clear message from IFRC Head, Jagan Chapagain and Andrew Steer, President and CEO of the World Re...