Life Skills is a series of low-threshold workshops by the Netherlands Red Cross supporting migrants, asylum seekers, and undocumented people by providing them with practical skills, boosting their self-reliance, and creating a safe and open space to discuss challenges and concerns with peers.
Involvement
A post-wildfire recovery initiative that mobilized conservation corps youth as a trained, paid workforce to support environmental and community recovery in fire-affected areas of Los Angeles County.
Case
Providing Red Cross/Red Crescent practitioners with a complete project cycle framework and 59 adaptable tools for implementing community and school-based disaster risk education in Small Island Developing States.
Solution
Providing Red Cross/Red Crescent practitioners with a complete project cycle framework and 59 adaptable tools for implementing community and school-based disaster risk education in Small Island Developing States.
Contribution
Professional emergency services may, at times, be limited in their response capacity and are often forced to focus their efforts on providing only the most essential assistance. Ready2Help is especially beneficial when a large number of people are quickly needed to provide extra support. This includes physical assistance (e.g. filling sandbags, carrying goods), sheltering groups of people, relieving healthcare personnel or providing assistance by making resources available (e.g. places to sleep or means of transport).
Solution
A community training programme that turns residents into organised, trained volunteers who can support emergency response and recovery in their neighbourhoods.
Case
The Disaster Recovery Toolkit for Local Government is a modular guide that helps local authorities prepare for, manage, and sustain disaster recovery across the full recovery timeline.
Solution
A community training programme that turns residents into organised, trained volunteers who can support emergency response and recovery in their neighbourhoods.
Contribution
Safecast designs and deploys open hardware and software tools that enable citizens and experts to collect, share and access high-quality environmental data. Originating from a post-disaster information gap, Safecast promotes transparency, public trust and evidence-based decision-making through open data and community-driven monitoring.
Solution
A multi-level assessment tool (Preliminary and Detailed) that allows cities to establish a baseline for resilience, identify gaps in preparedness, and prioritize actions and investments across various sectors.
Solution