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This briefing paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learned from relief responses to past earthquakes. The main intended audiences are operational decision-makers and relief Program managers...
This paper aims to provide a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes. It concentrates on issues of particular relevance in earthquakes. \nThe paper...
Disaster response in an urban environment presents a wide variety of challenges. Humanitarian organisations often have more experience of disaster response in rural settings, and local authorities...
This document reviews the coordination of disaster mitigation, preparedness and response among the Civil Protection actors of South Eastern Europe (SEE), identifying needs both with respect to...
This study explored the possibility of employing burnt bricks produced locally by completely traditional methods as pavers on unpaved agrarian and rural earth roads in indigent communities. The...
This paper began as a reaction to the bulldozing of infrastructure in refugee camps after the refugees leave. The author tried to learn how much this infrastructure was worth by consulting...
This study on impacts of disasters on the education sector in Cambodia aims to build an evidence-based rationale to raise awareness on integrating DRR concerns into education policies, programs...
This study on impacts of disasters on the education sector in Lao PDR aims to build an evidence-based rationale to raise awareness on integrating DRR concerns into education policies, programs and...
This study on impacts of disasters on the education sector in the Philippines aims to build an evidence-based rationale to raise awareness on integrating DRR concerns into education policies,...
Discussion on Grameen bank's experiences with providing credit to enable low-income families to pay for housing improvements and on the model house.