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For decades, aid actors have widely acknowledged the importance of facilitating effective transitions from relief to development and grappled with the operational and policy challenges of...
This background note addresses the cost effectiveness of investing in resilience when compared with approaches that rely exclusively on ex-post response and recovery, and the lack of funding...
This report is part of chapter 4 in the book Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstruction after Natural Disasters. This chapter covers the disaster timeline and how to apply...
This issue of the journal 'Humanitairan Exchange', has a special feature which focuses on the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel region of Africa, where aid agencies estimate that more...
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...
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...
Eleven case studies are included in the TLS 2013 that have been implemented in response to flooding, earthquake and conflict. This year’s case studies illustrate different types of child-friendly...
This film is for DRR practitioners or those wishing to learn more about DRR practices. Good practice is demonstrated through case studies from Tajikistan, Malawi, India, Nicaragua, El Salvador,...