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Shelter and Haiti
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Haiti

This video published by the IFRC on December 2010 shows the Red Cross building transitional shelters in Haiti.
Prepared communities are safer communities
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Viet Nam, Myanmar

Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the globe work with vulnerable communities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. This video shows DRR projects especially in Asia (...

Hurricanes: How to build a safer wooden house
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

This film shows how to build a safer wooden shelter and serves as tutorial on hurricane resistant techniques.
PASSA (Participatory Approach to Safe Shelter Awareness)
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

This video published by the IFRC in 2011 explains PASSA, a participatory tool that allows communities to improve their living environment, build safer shelters and design better settlements.
Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia Pacific
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam

Asia Pacific is the most disaster prone region of the world, suffering on average, 40% of global disasters each year. For decades, the IFRC has been working with Red Cross Red Crescent National...

Indonesia: building bamboo shelters
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Indonesia

This video made by the IFRC explains how to build / to realize a bamboo shelter. The earthquake-resilient shelters are made out of local materials such as bamboo and rope and cost the equivalent...

Why Humanitarian Reform?
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

In this video, recorded in Geneva on December 2007, Mark Cutts from UNOCHA explains the Humanitarian Reform.
Haiti: Alternative Shelter Solutions
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Haiti

Alternative Shelter solutions explain IFRC's Self-sheltering Programme in Haiti. Providing safe and improved shelter solutions which help people to leave overcrowded camps and allow them to...

Humanitarian principles revisited? Current and future challenges
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Switzerland

On 21 March 2013, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the ICRC, and at the backdrop of the Review's recent issue on 'The Future of Humanitarian Action', the International...

The Cluster approach
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

This video created by the IFRC on 2010 presents and explains the cluster approach thanks to cartoons and several interviews of cluster members as IFRC, UNHCR, Care, ECHO, Oxfam, governments, etc....