Valuing What Works. Success Factors for Disaster Preparedness.

Author(s)
Mays, R. et al.
Publication language
English
Pages
44pp
Date published
01 Nov 2014
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Accountability and Participation, Capacity development, Evaluation-related
Organisations
American Red Cross

This report summarizes an 18-month, evidence-based study that sought to understand practitioner information needs by asking the question: What are successful Red Cross/Red Crescent (RCRC) preparedness practitioners already doing that works, and how can the organization better support their information needs in what they are already doing? A research team from the University of Washington conducted a qualitative, ethnographic study consisting of 116 interviews conducted across the 5 regions and multiple levels of the RCRC movement and six, two-week visits to national societies to observe and interview practitioners who had been named as doing good work by their peers within the RCRC.