The Technological & Biological Hazard Preparedness Programme offers these social media assets on PDF for National Societies to disseminate and raise awareness on this topic. If National Societies would like to edit the content or translate into a d …
The Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies addresses Technological & Biological Hazards through a multi-hazard approach. Download this A3 poster with relevant information on this topic. Find more related documents on the website
Man-made hazards are defined as those “induced entirely or predominantly by human activities and choices”. Technological Hazards like industrial spills, transport accidents, factory explosions are a subset of man-made hazards. They can also be triggere …
The ‘IFRC Roadmap on Technological and Biological (CBRN) Hazard Preparedness – Towards 2030: An enhanced multi-hazard approach’ invite National Societies and the IFRC Secretariat to reflect on the current status of Red Cross Red Crescent preparedness t …
This document provides additional background information to complement the ‘IFRC Roadmap on Technological and Biological (CBRN) Hazard Preparedness – Towards 2030: An enhanced multi-hazard approach’, (October 2020). Taken together, these documents invi …
COVID-19 is more than a health crisis; it is also an information and socio-economic crisis. The pandemic and the associated response are prompting the deepest global recession in nearly a century and pushing an estimated 70-100 million more people into extreme poverty.
Study of legal frameworks to facilitate and regulate international disaster response in: Union of the Comoros, Mayotte and Reunion, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, and Tanzania.
Georgia is one of many countries having an increasingly ageing population demographically. Older population group face many challenges, a situation further exacerbated by the onset of COVID-19 which not only poses an increased direct risk for older people, but also sees them face serious secondary health, social and economic impacts.
In Azerbaijan, older people make up a steadily growing proportion of society, for whom the COVID-19 pandemic poses a serious health risk. Potential economic, health and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic presents an additional threat to the wellbeing of older people, and revials a need for effective policies on ageing and care, and well-organized integrated care provision models.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Armenia has severely affected older people in terms of their life and health, social and economic situation. The outbreak in Armenia was rapid and the state of emergency was long-lasting for the entire country, later replaced by quarantine.
