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Assessing time, cost and quality trade-offs in forecast-based action for floods

This paper presents a method to assess the value added of Early Warning Early Action Systems, and the trade-offs and dilemmas faced by decision-makers in weighing the quality of forecasts and …

• Policy Paper

Disaster risk financing in concert: how co-ordinated disaster risk financing can save more lives

This paper argues for the creation of coordinated DRF systems between government and humanitarian partners to help catalyse even more effective disaster response and recovery.

• Report

The Cost of Doing Nothing

In its latest report, The Cost of Doing Nothing, the IFRC presents an analysis showing that if no urgent action is taken now, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance annually due to …

• Manual / Guideline

Visualisation of Early Warning Information

Visual presentation of early warning information can support users to better understand the information andmake an informed decisionabout what actionsto take. This document sets out principles to …

• Manual / Guideline

A guide to Effective Collaboration and Learning in Consortia

This guide shares some examples and lessons learnt from a range of consortia operating across different programmes. We provide some pointers for researchers, practitioners, and other stakeholders to …

• Briefing Sheet / Fact Sheet

LANDSLide multi-hazard risk assessment, Preparedness and early warning in South Asia: Integrating meteorology, landscape and society

LANDSLIP is a 'research-into-action'project seeking to develop a prototype regional rainfall-induced landslide Early Warning System in two Indian pilot case study areas.

• Research Report

Insurance for Climate Adaptation: Opportunities and Limitations

Climate change jeopardizes socioeconomic stability, and sets back efforts at development. The increasing frequency and severity of climate-change-driven disasters threaten lives and livelihoods, …

• Briefing Sheet / Fact Sheet

Landslide EVO: Citizen Science for Landslide Risk Reduction and Disaster Resilience Building in Mountain Regions

Landslide EVO brings together experts in environmental hazards, engineering,social science,citizen science, and computational modelling toimprove disasterresilience in Western Nepal.

• Briefing Sheet / Fact Sheet
• Manual / Guideline

The use of social media in natural hazard early warning systems

This short knowledge paperdescribes some of the ways social media has been used in the context of natural hazard early warning to aid decision making and enable people to communicate and …

• Policy Paper

Anticipatory crisis financing and action: concepts, initiatives and evidence

This paper, which was commissioned by the Centre for Disaster Protection, outlines the current state of anticipatory action and discusses some of the existing evidence on its impact. It is not …