The GDPC performs the following actitities to support the work done at the RCRC movement through learning, knowledge sharing, innovation, technical assistance, research and collaboration amongst disaster preparedness practitioners worldwide.
Featured Activities
Urban Collaboration Platform The International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Secretariat (IFRC) and the American Red Cross have been leading an Urban Collaboration Platform (UCP) since early 2016, with strong support from increasing number of National Societies, the Global Disaster...
Community based needs assessments lead to action planning to develop activities and programs in an intervention area. To guide the review and prioritization of potential solutions that form the basis of community action plans the GDPC is working with the Institute for Social and Environmental...
The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) piloted the #MyResilienceStory video contest from March 3rd to April 12th of 2015 to raise awareness on how local efforts and actions are contributing to community resilience. Through this initiative, the GDPC highlighted disaster preparedness efforts...
Description The 2018 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop was held in Hong Kong, hosted by Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) on October 31st. - November 1st. Also a CAP Training Session was implemented on October 30 and a Filtered Alert Hub Workshop on November 2. Both the CAP...
To enhance resilience efforts worldwide the IFRC has launched the One Billion Coalition for Resilience (1 BC) to engage and inspire one billion people to take active steps towards enhancing individual and community resilience by 2025. Coalitions at local, national, and global levels between actors...
As part of the global Red Cross and Red Crescent network, the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is a resource center that promotes innovation in disaster preparedness and supports learning and knowledge sharing amongst disaster preparedness practitioners worldwide. One key aspect of the...
Mobile Technology Use in Humanitarian Organizations: To better serve the needs of people affected by disasters, humanitarian organizations must be able to make use of new technologies, having the mobile nature of operations, there is an increasing need to enable humanitarian staff with tools and...
WhatNow Service: Early Action Tool WhatNow Service, developed by the Red Cross and Red Crescent's Global Disaster Preparedness Center in partnership with Google , is designed to increase the speed and dissemination of disaster preparedness and risk reduction messages. It is founded on IFRC's Public...
