Purpose: Overview: Usage: Learning from experience Audience: National Society leadership, Communication staff No ratings yet. Rate This! Please rate this content
Integrating Climate Change and Urban Risks into the VCA – Ensure effective participatory analysis and enhanced community action (2014)
Purpose The guidelines in this document have been developed to specifically address two key recommendations that have emerged from the vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA) review. They are to provide further guidance to national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies…
Introduction to IFRC Learning Platform on Climate change
Purpose: The course provides an introduction to climate change and aims to help staff and volunteers understand how they can contribute to addressing related issues in their day to day work within local communities. Overview: The course takes approximately 30…
How to Engage with National Adaptation Plans: Guidance for National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
This guide aims to support National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ engagement on national level policy discussions regarding climate change adaptation, particularly through the development of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) by their respective governments.
Accessing climate finance – An overview
This document aims at providing National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies with an overview of some dedicated funding sources for climate change. The guide also provides some basic information on how to access these funds.
IFRC Plan of Action Climate Change 2013 – 2016
This plan of action outlines the priorities and plans of IFRC in integrating climate change issues into its programmes, policies and operations.
Minimum Standards for Local Climate‐Smart Disaster Risk Reduction
Purpose This document developed as a practical checklist to help local community leaders and disaster risk reduction (DRR) practitioners ensure their risk reduction efforts are climate‐smart and contribute to climate change adaptation. The minimum standards are presented in two tables.…
A Guide to Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
This guide has been developed to support Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and IFRC staff in more systematically integrating risk reduction measures into their planning. It describes in detail what key issues need to be considered, and when. The guidance aims at ensuring that risk reduction measures are taken into account in different sectors and contexts. It also details the key elements that need to be in place to create an enabling environment.
The long road to resilience – impact and cost-benefit analysis of community-based disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh
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Final Evaluation of the Mangrove Plantation and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Period of 2011-2015
This report presents findings of the Final Evaluation of the Vietnam Red Cross (VNRC) Mangrove Plantation and Disaster Risk Reduction (MP-DRR) programme for 2011-2015. Specifically, the following issues were considered as to whether the programme had achieved its expected results regarding: plantation of forest and sustainable forest protection; improved capacity of communes (under the project) to protect against disasters and impacts of climate change; and strengthened capacity of the VNRC to develop and implement community based disaster-risk management (CBDRM) projects sustainably and effectively.