Purpose This video is one of five documentaries created to illustrate best practice in building community and Red Cross and Red Crescent capacity in a variety of cultural contexts in Mongolia, Australia, Nepal and Cambodia. Overview The capacity-building process involves…
Purpose This video is one of five documentaries created to illustrate best practices in building community and Red Cross and Red Crescent capacity in a variety of cultural contexts from Mongolia, Australia, Nepal and Cambodia. Overview To start a participatory…
Purpose This video provides an overview of the Canadian Red Cross Tool ’ Ten steps to creating safe environments for children and youth’ Overview The ten steps are: Be aware: Understanding abuse, violence, bullying, and harassment. Look all ways: recognising…
Purpose This video looks at the impact HIV/AIDS has on older people. Overview Most HIV campaigns tend to focus on the young, neglecting older people. The video illustrates the stories of two people in Zimbabwe suffering from the disease and…
The Training Toolkit for Community Early Warning Systems is an operational manual that aims to strengthen early warning systems in a developing country context. It is targeted to National Societies and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that are embarking on a journey either to strengthen existing CEWS efforts in a country or to create, from scratch, a community-driven EWS. Trainers are DRR/M programme, project and partner staff members who would be responsible to guide, support or evaluate EWS efforts in at-risk communities.
This assessment tool aims to: facilitate reflection; identify programme strengths and opportunities for improvement; and identify priorities for capacity-building in programmes designed to address violence against women.
The tool includes assessment items related to three “core” programmatic strategies (community mobilization; health and social support services; and legal aid) and four “cross-cutting” strategies (advocacy; media and communications; capacity-building; and partnerships) for addressing violence against women.
Purpose This document brings together three cross-cutting themes (violence prevention, beneficiary accountability and gender equality) that have emerged as consistent priorities within international operations into one cohesive approach that will assist programme teams to meet minimum standards, while also determining…
This ‘Participant Handbook’ is to help the course participants to follow the CBDRR Training Course. The handbook contains all the information that is needed by the participant to attend the training, conducted by the Myanmar Red Cross Society with the support of the various Partner National Societies.
The CBDRR Step-by-Step Methodology aims to guide the effective implementation of new community-based as well as school-based interventions implemented by MRCS as well as other DRR actors in Myanmar identifying key steps that need to be followed under each program as well as Minimum Activities for each of the steps.
The Manual on Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction is a consolidation and harmonization of existing CBDRR methodologies, procedures, and practices of Myanmar Red Cross Society.