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Housing Finance Mechanisms in the Republic of Korea
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Republic of Korea

This publication is an evaluation housing finance mechanisms in Republic of Korea. It details Republic of Korea's experience with this type of financing and may provide other countries with...

National Experiences with Shelter Delivery for the Poorest Groups
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria

This report deals with the problems encountered by the poor in their struggle to find shelter, specifically addressing how current shelter policies are leaving the poor out of the shelter-delivery...

Housing and Urban Upgrading in Yantai, China
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: China

This report examines the housing problems in China about two decades ago. It describes the miracle China has made in the field of housing and urban development in the face of such a rapid...

community-based natural resource management and watershed resource...
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Indonesia

This report examines the nature and scope of the housing problem, the housing sector and the financial sector in Indonesia. It describes the structure, patterns, trends, characteristics and...

The use of selected indigenous building materials with potential for...
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Africa, Asia

This report fulfils one of the goals of the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless by providing decision-makers in developing countries with a basis on which to undertake reforms in the...

Evaluation of Experience with Initiating Enabling Shelter Strategies
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Colombia, India, Nigeria, Thailand

This report uses the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 as the basis for describing "enabling" strategies and processes in the field of shelter provision and improvement. A...

Cyclone Shelter Assessment
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Myanmar

While there is little information on the availability of cyclone shelters prior to cyclone Nargis, a total of 358 cyclone-resistant community buildings (includes completed, under construction and...

Shelter Projects 2010
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Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Afghanistan, Chile, Haiti, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Pakistan, Romania, Sri Lanka, Tonga, Viet Nam, World

Shelter Projects 2010 is the third annual compilation of shelter programmes. This book contains summaries of shelter projects that have been implemented in response to conflicts, complex...

Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015
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Publisher(s): United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Japan

This document is anExtract from the final report of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (A/CONF. 206/6), held from 18 to 22 January 2005in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. The Conference adopted the...

Beijing Declaration on the 2005 World Conference on Disaster Reduction
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Publisher(s): United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: China

An International Conference on Disaster Reduction was held in Beijing, PeopleÂ’s Republic of China, from 25 to 27 May 2004. The Conference was co-organized by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the...

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