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The speaker offered an overview of the IASC's cluster initiative, with a focus on how it had been designed by the Humanitarian Response Review (HRR) after the Indian Ocean tsunami 2004, paying...
The speaker chaired a discussion on a number of shelter and settlement issues. Topics included:
- the need for training and certification of humanitarian workers in transitional...
The speaker presented the design and operational history of the winterised NB82 shelter. The NB82 was developed 25 years ago by SDC/HA, and has been deployed in various disaster locations around...
The speaker described the role of early recovery. The speaker stressed the need to start early recovery in parallel with relief operations, presenting them as complementary ways of assisting a...
In addition to its funded programme of products and services, Shelter Centre elaborated on its proposal at SM05b for a new service called 'Shelter Expo'. The intent of this service is to improve...
The speaker presented shelter frames designed to be used in flood prone areas of Vietnam. He explored how they can be adapted to different risk situations. The speaker also elaborated on how the...
The first speaker presented the four main areas of GIS work at UNHCR: registration of refugees, generation and presentation of statistics, camp mapping, and data mapping of a camp. The speaker...
Shelter Module is one of ten products and services for sector support being developed by Shelter Centre and collaborating organisations between 2006 and 2009. The Shelter Module is a new emergency...
The speaker compared three recent disasters in Guatemala, the Philippines and Bangladesh. The focus of the discussion centred on the links between disaster areas, the availability of land and...
The speaker presented the Kabul Area and Settlement Service Project (KASSP), which is currently being undertaken by USAID and local implementing partners. The speaker described the rate of...