Global Resilience Guides
Official National Preparedness Documents
Twenty-five national and institutional preparedness documents from twenty-two countries, hosted here in full. Every entry states its publishing body, its edition where the document declares one, its year, its extent and its file size, taken from the document itself. Use the collection to compare how governments instruct their own populations, to study regional risk profiles, or to read the primary sources behind the rest of this toolkit.
These documents vary widely in scope. Eighteen are household guides written by a government to its own public, covering supplies, sheltering, evacuation, alerting and, in fifteen cases, conduct during armed conflict. Seven are institutional: national strategies, capability frameworks, a risk analysis, a machinery-of-government handbook and a military education curriculum. Every card states which kind it is, so you can tell before you download.
Filter by region using the sidebar or the buttons above the cards. For the practical side of this material, start with Physical Resilience and Planning for the Worst.
Every card below links directly to the document it names, and each was opened and its front matter read, so nothing here is inferred from a filename. Where the publisher maintains its own record page for the document, the card links that too. Five documents print no year anywhere, and those cards say so instead of supplying one.
On rights. The Resistance Hub makes no claim about what you may do with these documents. Each was issued for public distribution by its publisher. Seven of the twenty-five carry an explicit statement. Singapore’s reserves all rights to the Civil Defence Force. Germany’s reserves reproduction to the limits of applicable copyright law while expressly inviting citation with full source attribution. Lithuania’s asserts copyright to the Ministry of National Defence and, separately, to the illustrator. Canada’s asserts Crown copyright with no license granted, and Spain’s asserts copyright without naming a rightsholder. Two run the other way: the United Kingdom’s is reusable under the Open Government Licence, and New Zealand’s under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, subject to an emblem carve-out. The remaining eighteen print no notice at all, which is the absence of a statement. Reproduction terms are a matter for the publisher, and the publisher is named on every card.
Documents carrying a Full record link have a dedicated page on this site setting out that document’s provenance, contents and rights status.
High North
3 DocumentsCountries in the High North face extreme weather, remote infrastructure and sustained strategic pressure. Their guides emphasize cold-weather survival, communications redundancy, week-long household self-sufficiency, and coordination between civilian and military institutions.
How You Can Play Your Part in Norway’s Emergency Preparedness
Household self-sufficiency for one week. Covers water, heat, light, food, medicine, hygiene, cash, a battery radio and information discipline, and sets out what public services can and cannot provide during a disruption. Names acts of war among the drivers and closes with the public shelter system and the national shelter map.
In Case of Crisis or War
Distributed to every household in Sweden on behalf of the government. Covers home supplies, heating, payments, disinformation and the total defense obligation, then moves to shelters, evacuation and the alarm signals. Defines the air raid warning as short bursts sounding for one minute, with the instruction to seek a civil defense shelter immediately. This is the November 2024 edition; an earlier edition circulated in 2018 under a different title.
Prepared People Cope Better
A short summary of the national preparedness guidance Finland publishes through Suomi.fi. Sets out what a household should hold, how official alerts reach the public, and where the fuller guidance sits. Brief by design, and the most compact statement of the Finnish whole-of-society model in this collection.
Baltic States
3 DocumentsThe Baltic states publish under conditions defined by a long land border with Russia, persistent cyber activity, and sustained exposure to disinformation and sabotage. Their guides prioritize information discipline, sheltering procedures, and how essential services behave under stress. All three address armed conflict directly.
Hazard Notification
A twelve-page leaflet on the public warning system. Explains the seven channels through which an alert reaches residents, the siren tone and what it signals, where public shelters are and how to prepare a residential basement, evacuation procedure, and a one-week home supply list. Sheltering is covered for extreme weather, accidents and military threat. The Estonian, Russian and English files are the same document.
72 Hours: What To Do In Case Of A Crisis
How a household sustains itself through the first seventy-two hours of a crisis when essential services are disrupted. Covers water, food, medications, essential documents and emergency kits, then civilian safety procedures for air raids, artillery, chemical incidents and nuclear hazards. Also covers verifying information and identifying official emergency services.
Prepare to Survive Emergencies and War: A Cheerful Take on Serious Recommendations
An illustrated guide to responding to emergencies and wartime hazards. Covers evacuation, sheltering, first aid, chemical and radiological threats, and conduct toward hostile forces. Includes behavioral instruction for explosions, occupation and loss of communications. The subtitle is the document’s own, and the illustrated treatment is deliberate: it exists to make serious guidance readable.
Central & Eastern Europe
9 DocumentsThese countries publish against layered risk: historical fault lines, energy dependencies, aging infrastructure and the war in Ukraine. The entries here range from household conduct under occupation to national strategy documents written for public administration, which is why the document type is stated on every card.
Get Ready! Guide for Crisis and War
Two documents under one cover. The first half is household preparedness: kits, family planning, communications, alert signals, and response to fires, storms, floods and technological incidents. The second half is conduct under attack, covering behavior during gunfire and explosions, chemical, biological and radiological threats, hostage situations, and how to act toward foreign soldiers during a temporary occupation.
Guide for Emergency Preparedness and Correct Action in Emergency Situations
How civilians should plan for emergencies, sustain themselves through service disruptions and respond to a sudden crisis. Covers food and water storage, power outages, warning systems and the first steps after an incident, and sets out what support the state provides during a large-scale emergency. The only document in this collection whose rights notice invites citation explicitly.
Handbook: In Case of Emergency or War
Practical steps for preparing a home, assembling supplies and coordinating with family during crisis or armed conflict. Covers reaction to shelling, shelter use, verifying information and maintaining communication when services degrade, then first aid, survival kits and vehicle readiness. A closing section covers conduct in the combat area. The only document here that names its own canonical online edition.
Estrategia Nacional de Protección Civil 2024
A government strategy written for public administration and emergency management institutions. Sets out the national risk catalogue, governance arrangements, capabilities and assigned lines of action across Spain’s civil protection system, and was approved by the Consejo de Seguridad Nacional in October 2024. War risk appears as one category, covering hybrid threats, disinformation, cyberattack and espionage. The document contains no household instructions.
What Risks Is Switzerland Exposed To? Disasters and Emergencies in Switzerland 2020
A summary of Switzerland’s national risk analysis, covering forty-four hazards across nature, technology and society with likelihood and damage estimates for each. Armed conflict and limited armed attack appear among them. Written for the public, civilian executive staff and political decision makers, it describes what could happen and leaves the response to the risk-based planning guidance it introduces. It carries no supply lists, no shelter guidance and no siren information.
Tous Responsables
A seventy-two hour household booklet in three parts. Preparation covers the emergency kit, six liters of water per person, documents, cash and a battery radio, plus building a mutual aid network with neighbors. Protection covers floods, wildfires, landslides, earthquakes, storms, nuclear and industrial accidents, pandemics, cyberattack and terrorism, along with the national siren signal and the FR-Alert system. The third part covers joining the Garde Nationale, the operational reserves and the volunteer fire service.
IFRC Civil Protection Guidance for National Societies and Federation Secretariat Relations with European Union Actors
An internal policy and legal guidance document for Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies and IFRC staff. Sets out how to engage the EU Union Civil Protection Mechanism, DG ECHO, the ERCC and rescEU while holding the Movement’s Fundamental Principles, and covers the auxiliary role, operational recommendations, emblem and logo rules, and civil-military coordination. Included here for the institutional picture. It carries no household guidance, and it states that it does not apply to armed conflict.
The UK Government Resilience Framework
A national strategy setting out how central government, devolved administrations, local resilience forums, critical infrastructure owners and the private sector will build resilience to civil contingencies. Covers risk assessment and the National Risk Register, a UK Resilience Academy, the National Exercising Programme, local resilience forum reform and the National Situation Centre. Written for the resilience system, so it carries no household guidance, and its final annex traces the UK’s move away from wartime civil defense.
Guide for Crisis Situations
Opens with a self-scored readiness quiz, then covers Romania’s strategic position, the seventy-two hour kit at a minimum of four liters of water per person, a household emergency plan, managing stress and panic, cyber hygiene, and recognizing hostile information operations. Prints the full national siren code, including the air raid pre-alarm and air raid alarm patterns, and directs readers to the shelter list.
Asia-Pacific
7 DocumentsThe Asia-Pacific carries some of the highest natural-disaster frequencies anywhere: typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic activity and large-scale flooding. Security risk shapes the guides in several states as well, through grey-zone pressure, cyber intrusion and information manipulation. Taiwan appears twice, with two documents published two years apart.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Disaster Prevention Guide Book
Published by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government for residents of Tokyo. Covers earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons and volcanic activity, household and workplace preparation, evacuation routes, safety confirmation, emergency water stations and disaster base hospitals. A section on armed attacks defines military attack by a foreign power and large-scale terrorism. Roughly half the page count describes the metropolitan government’s own countermeasure programs.
Emergency Procedures Manual for Foreigners
A short leaflet for foreign nationals living in Korea. Covers staying informed, deciding whether to depart or remain, locating one of the designated shelters, and reading the warning sirens. Tabulates the warning alarm for an anticipated attack as a one-minute flat tone and the air raid alarm for an attack in progress as a three-minute wave tone. Ten pages, and the briefest document in this collection by a wide margin.
All-Out Defense Contingency Handbook
Contingency guidance issued under Taiwan’s all-out defense framework. Covers civil defense expectations, emergency response and the actions expected of residents during a national security contingency. Superseded in 2025 by the guide below, and retained here because the two documents make a useful comparison of how the same agency reframed the same subject in two years.
In Case of Crisis: Taiwan’s National Public Safety Guide
Practical steps for natural disasters, major accidents and national security threats. Covers emergency alerts, sheltering, evacuation and household preparedness, with hazard-specific actions for earthquakes, typhoons, fires and chemical incidents. Its title page carries no text layer, which is the likeliest reason this document was previously catalogued under the 2023 handbook’s entry.
Civil Defence Emergency Handbook
A full household handbook in five chapters. First aid covering bleeding, fractures, burns, stroke, choking, CPR and AED use; fire safety; peacetime emergencies including the ready bag, stockpiling, floods, tremors and power outage; wartime emergencies covering rationing, the Public Warning System and shelter protection; and terrorism, including chemical and biological threats. The most substantial household document in this collection. The publisher now issues a tenth edition, linked alongside.
Australian Disaster Preparedness Framework
A capability development framework for Commonwealth, state and territory agencies. Sets out national capability requirements, preparedness principles, and eight framework components covering governance, risk and consequence, capability enhancement, partnerships, coordination, investment and continuous improvement. It carries its own section on what the framework is not, and it contains no household instructions and no treatment of armed conflict.
National Resilience System Handbook
A machinery-of-government handbook describing New Zealand’s National Resilience System. Covers the national risk management objectives, the National Risk and Resilience Framework, the role of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet as system steward, and the strategic crisis response arrangements including ODESC, watch groups and lead agency roles. Armed conflict appears as a governance line item with assigned coordinating agencies. Household guidance sits elsewhere, and the handbook says so.
North America
3 DocumentsNorth America’s guidance addresses large-scale natural hazards, hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes and winter storms, alongside technological emergencies and cyberattack. None of the three documents here treats armed conflict, which is the sharpest single contrast with the European and Baltic entries above.
Are You Ready? An In-Depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness
Comprehensive hazard-specific preparedness for US households. Covers planning for disasters, assembling emergency supplies, understanding local warning systems and protecting critical documents, then recovery and safety after an event. The longest-standing reference in this collection, and the one the rest of this toolkit’s US figures are drawn from.
Your Emergency Preparedness Guide
A short household brochure built around seventy-two hours of self-sufficiency, covering local risks, a fill-in family emergency plan and a kit checklist. Published in 2006 and unrevised since, and the campaign portal it directs readers to no longer operates. Retained here as the Canadian entry of record; treat current Public Safety Canada guidance as authoritative.
Resilience Reference Curriculum
NATO’s framework for teaching resilience across member states. Introduces civil preparedness, continuity of government, infrastructure protection and societal resilience, with modular learning objectives for institutions building resilience education programs. The longest document in this collection, and the only one written as teaching material.