Climate-smart disaster risk reduction programming resources

Our vision is for communities around the world to be more resilient to, and better prepared for, the impacts of natural hazards—now and in the future. Discover the resources, tools and guidance we’ve produced to help our network and partners with their work in climate-smart disaster risk reduction.

Featured guidance and tools

Community risk assessment guidance and toolbox

Step-by-step guidance on how to conduct participatory community risk assessments using our Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (EVCA) approach.

Climate-smart programming guide

What does being ‘climate smart’ mean for Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and how can we achieve it in our programming?

Forecast-based financing manual

Learn how to use innovative technologies, data and weather forecasts to protect lives and livelihoods before a disaster strikes.

Community Early Warning Systems: guiding principles

This guide offers an overview of how to set up, or strengthen existing, community early warning systems that can reduce people's risk and save lives.

Public Awareness and Public Education (PAPE) messages

In partnership with Save the Children, we’ve developed key messages on a range of different disaster scenarios to support communities to stay safe.

City Heatwave Guide

Practical actions that National Societies can take to best support their communities in towns and cities during a heatwave.

Building Urban Resilience Guide

This guide explains the increasing trends in urban risks and sets out how National Societies can support people living in urban areas to build their resilience.

Guide to mainstreaming DRR and adaptation

This guide, developed specifically for Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, offers advice on how to systematically include risk reduction and climate change adaptation measures into planning across all sectors and contexts.

Climate-smart programming during COVID-19

Guidance on how to safely and effectively continue disaster risk management programming during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Other related guidance

08/03/2018

pdf (4.8 MB)

Road map to community resilience

08/03/2018 | pdf (4.8 MB)

18/09/2020

pdf (305.63 KB)

Minimum Standards for local climate-smart disaster risk reduction

18/09/2020 | pdf (305.63 KB)

18/09/2020

pdf (653.25 KB)

Small and simple actions to address climate change

18/09/2020 | pdf (653.25 KB)

26/07/2021

pdf (1.48 MB)

Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities Brochure

26/07/2021 | pdf (1.48 MB)

26/07/2021

pdf (16.33 MB)

Urban Action Kit

26/07/2021 | pdf (16.33 MB)

26/02/2017

pdf (6.43 MB)

Framework for Climate Action Towards 2020

26/02/2017 | pdf (6.43 MB)

08/03/2018

pdf (1.41 MB)

IFRC Framework for Community Resilience

08/03/2018 | pdf (1.41 MB)

01/01/2013

pdf (1.08 MB)

Guidance: how to engage with National Adaptation Plans

01/01/2013 | pdf (1.08 MB)

01/01/2013

pdf (1.13 MB)

Accessing climate finance: an overview

01/01/2013 | pdf (1.13 MB)

01/01/2015

pdf (5.3 MB)

Handbook on Law and DRR

01/01/2015 | pdf (5.3 MB)

20/08/2021

pdf (349.25 KB)

Better Programming Initiative: How to do conflict-sensitive conte...

20/08/2021 | pdf (349.25 KB)

Frameworks

01/01/2017

pdf (6.43 MB)

IFRC Framework for Climate Action

01/01/2017 | pdf (6.43 MB)

08/03/2018

pdf (1.41 MB)

IFRC Framework for Community Resilience

08/03/2018 | pdf (1.41 MB)

01/01/2020

pdf (4.01 MB)

Movement Ambitions to address the climate crisis

01/01/2020 | pdf (4.01 MB)

Typhoon Yutu (known in the Philippines as Typhoon Rosita) barrels down on the province of Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines in 2018

Photo: Finnish Red Cross/Joonas Brandt

Introduction to climate change

This course provides an introduction to climate-related issues and explains how our staff and volunteers can address them in their day-to-day work with local communities. Available in English and Arabic

Law and Disaster Risk Reduction

Good laws and regulations can help to save lives and livelihoods from the impacts of disasters. This course explains what types of laws are effective for disaster risk reduction. Available in English, Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish

Building pre-event flood resilience: the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities approach

Learn how to generate evidence about the ways in which a given area or community is already resilient to floods and how to further increase its resilience. Available in English.