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Building Back Better. Delivering people-centred housing...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Practical Action
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Kenya, El Salvador, Colombia, Peru, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Turkey

This volume debates and informs on themes such as housing, participation, and vulnerability in relation to large-scale post-disaster reconstruction. It is a contribution to ongoing debate in terms...

National experiences with shelter delivery for the poorest groups
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Nigeria, Indonesia, Mexico

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...

Wall, Listen... Learn!
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): UK Shelter Forum
Date: Feb 2014
Location: El Salvador, Brazil

Sometimes you fall upon things. The talk will focus on the observation (and the findings) of a (short) 10 day initial research trip to Parque S. Bartolomeu in Salvador da Bahia, Brasil where we...

The Face of Recovery
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): American Red Cross
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Belize, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, United States of America

The American Red Cross Response to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma
Emergency Capacity Building Pilot Projects
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Emergency Capacity Building Project (ECB)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Ethiopia, Guatemala, Indonesia

The Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) pilot projects showcase the activities of three countries (Ethiopia, Guatemala and Indonesia) to identify models and promising practices for disaster risk...

Choreographer of Disaster Management Preparing for Tomorrow's...
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua

Between 22 October and 1 November 1998, Hurricane Mitch, a 180-mph Category 5 storm, theworst to hit the Gulf of Mexico in 200 years, swept through a number of Central Americancountriesdevastating...

The Future of the Oxfam Emergency Shelter: An architecture essay
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): St. John's College, Cambridge
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Algeria, El Salvador, Turkey

This architecture essay explores possible modifications to expand the use of the Oxfam Emergency Shelter (SES2).

Shelter SES2 is an emergency shelter designed to house refugees in disaster...

Guidelines for Reducing Flood Losses
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Brazil, Honduras, Thailand

Guidelines developed over the course of three workshops:

Flood Forecasting and Disaster Response Workshop (Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 1999)
International Symposium on Flood...

National Experiences with Shelter Delivery for the Poorest Groups
Content Type: Resource
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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...

Gender and Post-Disaster Reconstruction: The Case of Hurricane Mitch...
Content Type: Resource
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Honduras, Nicaragua

Hurricane Mitch caused tremendous losses to human life, property, livelihoods, and physical infrastructure throughout Central America. Its effects were greatest in two of the poorest countries in...

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