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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...
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...
An update from the United Stated Agency for International Development about the investments in humanitarian activities related to shelter and settlements. It describes among other things the...
While there have been successful initiatives towards improving the performance of new construction by incorporation of appropriate designs, cost-effective flood-resistant techniques and building...
The Cairo based World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean published in 2007 theWHO e-Atlas of disaster risk for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Volume 1: Exposure...
The contamination of groundwater by arsenic in Bangladesh is the largest poisoning of a population in history, with millions of people exposed. This paper describes the history of the discovery of...
The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 (HFA) included thefollowing measure of commitment to and success of national riskreduction: Integrate disaster risk reduction planning into the health...
Folling Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, the Shelter Coordination Group launched an assessment to look at the needs of the affected population in terms of Early
Recovery Programming. That...
In an effort to develop an understanding of the overall response from Shelter Coordination Group member agencies to Cyclone Sidr, the SCG has produced an Agency Reporting Template for each agency...
This document has been written to assist the shelter Cluster to rapidly determine common shelter programs in response to Cyclone Sidr. As such, the following is a compilation of many of the...