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A guide to planning, design and building sanitation facilities in africa.
In the 1990s events in Bosnia, the former Soviet Union countries, Afghanistan and Northern Iraq showed that humanitarian disasters are not limited to the South, Africa, or the tropics, but may...
The Indonesian province of Aceh was suffering from ethnic conflicts for years. The Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 2004 added to the sufferings of the people beyond description. The massive...
Contents: Why is Disaster Risk Management relevant?What are the Building Blocks of modern Disaster Risk Management?How can the World Bank assist?
This paper presents an integrated analytic framework for tackling climate change through mainstreaming disaster risk management into overall development planning in urban areas. It discusses the...
A report into financing school building projects.
Lessons learned from the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake of 1995 and other disasters led the Japanese government to promote the concept of networked relocation following the GEJE, when an...
On August 17, 1999 an earthquake measuring 7. 4 on the Richter scale at 3: 00 am. devastated the Marmara region of Turkey. Over 15, 000 lives have been lost and there is extensive damage to Turkey...
The Toolkit for Integrating Gender Monitoring and Evaluation, has been developed to assist project task teams, borrowers, and partners to recognize and address gender concerns in designing rural...
This documents describes all the financial movements and justifications The World Bank suggests to rebuild Port-au-Prince and other cities hit by the 2010 Haiti's earthquake. It is extremely...