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With this Climate Guide for the Red Cross and Red Crescent we aim to share the experiences of more than 40 National Societies who, in the last five years have started to address climate change in...
A Red Cross film that uses documentary and participatory video to look at Community-Based Adaptation to climate change in Jakarta. The film whos how poor people are already adaptating and calls...
The number of displaced people around the world has increased consistently over the past 10 years. The total number doubles every seven or eight years and this upward trend shows no sign of...
The Sphere Project was launched in 1997 by a group of humanitarian NGOs and the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. Sphere is based on two core beliefs: first, that all possible steps should be...
Participatory Approach for Safe Shelter Awareness (PASSA) isa participatory method of disaster risk reduction (DRR) relatedto shelter safety. It is a variation of Participatory Hygiene...
Sri Lanka - J. C. Nimmi's story: from transitional shelter to her new home
As the tsunamis swept across vast tracts of land around the Bay of Bengal, they took with them virtually...
On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9. 0 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a series of massive tsunamis that devastated communities in 10 countries surrounding the Indian...
By the end of 2009, over 43 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution. In addition, during 2009, 335 reported natural disasters killed over 10, 000...
This carefully illustrated guide to how to build a safe shelter addresses cyclone-resistant construction. Full-color, labelled illustrations demonstrate the primary parts of a safer shelter. The...