Ensuring Global and Regional Commitments Translate into Local Level Action and Impact
Case Studies: Red Cross Red Crescent Disaster Risk Reduction in Action – What Works at Local Level June 2018
Between 2014 and 2016, Red Cross National Societies worked with communities, governments, and regional organizations to develop and implement an "early warning early action" approach in eight island nations in the Pacific. The Finnish-Pacific (or FINPAC) project brought together relevant...
Preparedness for Effective Response (PER) is a cryclical approach for a National Society (NS) to systematically assess, measure, and analyse the strengths and weaknesses of its response system in order to take remedial actions. The PER approach puts the National Society in the driver's seat to...
The impacts of climate change on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are leading to discussions regarding decision-making about the potential need to migrate. Despite the situation being well-documented, with many SIDS aiming to raise the topic to prominence and to take action for themselves...
The Governments of Italy and Austria are implementing a wide range of energy and climate change related projects in 12 Pacific Island Countries with the overall goal of supporting sustainable development initiatives on islands. Six of these energy efficiency and renewable energy projects are being...
