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In this video, Save the Children presents his program of disaster risk management through examples in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The primary intent of this booklet is to assist in the
design of nutrition-specific programmes in WFP
country offices, but may also serve as a resource for
training or advocacy...
This film shows how to build a safer wooden shelter and serves as tutorial on hurricane resistant techniques.
Alternative Shelter solutions explain IFRC's Self-sheltering Programme in Haiti. Providing safe and improved shelter solutions which help people to leave overcrowded camps and allow them to...
This video published by the IFRC on December 2010 shows the Red Cross building transitional shelters in Haiti.
This video published by the IFRC in 2011 explains PASSA, a participatory tool that allows communities to improve their living environment, build safer shelters and design better settlements.
Th is study analyzes the key challenges facing the urban poor, given the risks
associated with climate change and disasters, particularly with regard to the
delivery of basic services...
This paper therefore presents two main levels of analysis. The first level reports what
academic research says is happening about climate change and violent conflict. The second
level...
Investment in pre-crisis measures to reduce risk is always preferable to reconstruction. When crisis does occur, people will start rebuilding from the first day and the focus should be to enable...
More than one billion people nowadays live as slum-dwellers in informal settlements
characterized by vulnerability and poverty. The ‘normal’ situation in slums can, in
several ways, be...