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Our society is increasingly exposed to complex risks, emerging threats and multidimensional hazards. Therefore, it is essential to enable communities to increase their resilience and empower them to build back […]
The Red Cross Emergency Response Service is a scheme which allows volunteers in the Red Cross to be listed as Preparedness Guards on an alert list for extraordinary incidents. The […]
Social resilience is a topic that is now more than ever on the agenda — becoming a more pressing issue with the COVID-19 pandemic and the implosion of the war […]
A notable example of how to use technology in disaster management is the ERTZAINTZA app. It was created as a communication channel between citizens and the regional police of the […]
Conducting an interview with survivors, victims or volunteers will have to take extra precautions to not contribute to psychological harm for the interviewee. Here is what we do in ENGAGE […]
Over the past year, the work mitigating the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and safekeeping of citizens heavily depended on successful vaccination campaigns. However, organising a massive vaccination regime […]
On the “19th National Day of Safety in Schools”, held in Italy last November, Cittadinanzattiva, ANP and Civil Protection Department launched an investigation to understand how the pandemic changed schools […]
It is not easy to select a topic when writing a blog post concerning the ENGAGE project, mainly because of the number of aspects that the project encompasses. From the […]
Resilience is today a broadly used concept in academia and its use by disaster managers to plan for crisis and to manage crisis situations has also steadily increased over the […]
Fostering societal resilience has been the polar star for most of the emergency management agencies all over the world. Over the last year, we were reminded that no country and […]