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This report documents the collaboration between ECHO and GTZ which served to provide shelter for people displaced by the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh. It specifically...
Kailali disaster risk reduction initiatives. This report identifies ten risk reduction practices which were successfully implemented in the pilot communities and are replicable elsewhere. Its...
Assessments are critical inputs for effective recovery planning. An assessment can document the damages which occurred during a disaster and what it would cost to repair or replace damaged and...
The document is divided into two parts. The first part titled as General Guidance, describes the background, source materials and principles of performance and outcome indicators, key definitions...
A revised handbook for damage assessment. This new version incorporates new and significant developments while refining and improving the methodology for damage assessment contained in several...
This hanbook aims at being used as a tool to reduce urban risk in small and medium sized cities by local schools, students, teachers, parents, resident associations and local government members,...
This document addresses the issues of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the area of education in the form of a compendium of various educational activities and initiatives, both in the formal and...
This report presents a review on non-engineered buildings, that at present make up a substantial part of the Latin American residential fabric. Within the different self-construction practices,...
This report will details recovery efforts that state government made in the 12-24 month period after Hurricane Katrina. A summary of the work of the federal government, local governments,...
This second edition of the FEMA 154 Handbook provides a standard rapid visual screening procedure to identify, inventory, and rank buildings that are potentially seismically hazardous. The scoring...