The series provide the DRR practitioners with practical guidance on how to plan and implement community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) programmes with a particular focus on training of CBDRR practitioners.
Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction for Field Practitioners – Facilitator’s Guide
The series provide the DRR practitioners with practical guidance on how to plan and implement community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) programmes with a particular focus on training of CBDRR practitioners.
Comprehensive School Safety
This framework provides a comprehensive approach to reducing risks from all hazards to the education sector.
The Children’s Resilience Programme: Psychosocial support in and out of schools – Facilitator handbook 1, Getting Started – Psychosocial Support (PSS)
This material has been developed through cooperation between the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies and Save the Children. It builds on our experiences with psychosocial support and child protection in emergencies, and draws on lessons learnt from…
The Children’s Resilience Programme: Psychosocial support in and out of schools – Understanding Children’s Wellbeing – Psychosocial Support (PSS)
This material has been developed through cooperation between the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies and Save the Children. It builds on our experiences with psychosocial support and child protection in emergencies, and draws on lessons learnt from…
Psychosocial Interventions: A handbook – Psychosocial Support (PSS)
This handbook is for psychosocial practitioners who are planning a psychosocial intervention in response to a crisis or critical event. It is specifically targeted at practitioners working for Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies. However, most of the suggestions and recommendations presented are relevant to all stakeholders working in the field of psychosocial support.
Out of harm’s way: Injecting drug users and harm reduction (Advocacy report) 2010
This IFRC Health Advocacy Report depicts the stark reality of what it means to be an injecting drug user and living with HIV. It examines the prevention, treatment, care and support needs of this most at-risk population and the IFRC’s response to their plight. It also offers National Societies and the reader an advocacy tool that can be used for years to come. The aim? To remind governments and National Societies of the obligation to respect the human rights of injecting drug users at risk of, or living with, HIV. Although our focus is global, we place a special emphasis on Eastern Europe and Central Asia where the situation is becoming increasingly dire.
Guidelines on harm reduction related to injecting drug use: Spreading the light of science
The purpose of this document is to outline the rationale for harm reduction programmes. It outlines generic approaches that National Societies can adapt to the realities of their countries in the development and implementation of harm reduction programme and in conducting advocacy for the acceptance and realization such programmes.
Understanding Gender in Community-based Adaptation. Practitioner Brief 3
The brief documents the learning on community based adaptation approaches in ways that are useful to practitioners and decision-makers, in an effort to create an enabling environment for community-based adaptation and to promote good practice by adaptation and development actors.
Weather, Climate & Climate Change Facts and Figures for Vanuatu Red Cross Branches & Sub-Branches
The Handbook includes important facts and figures about weather, climate and climate change in Vanuatu. It is a reference guide and gives answers to questions that Vanuatu Red Cross Branch and Sub-branch staff and volunteers face in their work.