On #EarthDay 2025, IFRC calls for more investment in the protection and restoration of nature
23 April 2025
Report
Scoping early action in Timor-Leste
The Government of Timor-Leste is strengthening its early warning systems and forecasting capacity with support from the Green Climate Fund, and now a new report jointly compiled by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (also available as a policy brief) recommends that the country’s Civil Protection Authority creates a contingency fund to finance Anticipatory Action alongside, but separate from, the CPA’s annual budget. (Library photo, Timor-Leste Red Cross rescue people affected by Cyclone Seroja in April 2021.)
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Latest publications
NEW: Timor-Leste National Anticipatory Action Financing Mechanism
NEW: Timor-Leste National Anticipatory Action Financing Mechanism (Policy Brief)
Preparedness for winter weather and response by National Societies in Europe and Central Asia
Anticipatory action for climate-sensitive infectious diseases: Latin America regional assessment
Anticipatory action for climate-sensitive infectious diseases: East Africa regional assessment
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Join us on 2 June for Heat Action Day to raise awareness and take simple steps to #BeatTheHeat!
This year’s theme: How to recognize heat exhaustion & heat stroke.
Get involved, share your plans, and help protect your community. https://bit.ly/4iXLN1Z
The @crrdc1 is responding to catastrophic floods in South Kivu, #DRC, where over 60 lives—including 47 children—have been lost after heavy rains.
Volunteers are:
🔺 Evacuating people to emergency shelters
🔺 Searching for missing persons & providing safe burials
🔺 Monitoring…
One year since devastating floods hit Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
From day one, the Brazilian Red Cross and @IFRC have stood by communities—distributing aid, purifying water, offering health support, and even spreading hygiene awareness.
Always on the side of humanity. 🫶
Publication
A handbook for navigating fragility, conflict and violence
Communities beset by fragility, conflict and violence are disproportionately affected by disasters, and specially framed risk reduction in these settings is pivotal to saving lives. But how? A new handbook helps to navigate the challenges and uncertainties of FCV settings. Funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and jointly developed by the IFRC, the ICRC, the German Red Cross and the Climate Centre, it is also available in summary form in French and Spanish.
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