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This presentation is the day long presentation given at Shelter Partners Forum, held on the 1st December 2010 in Geneva. The forum was developed at the request of the participants of Shelter...
Matti Kuittinen from Finn Church Aid / Aalto University presented "Assessment of sustainable development in humanitarian construction" at Shelter Meeting 12a.
... The Speaker presented the approach and mandate of UN-Habitat, emphasising the need to bridge humanitarian and development work and promoting sustainability and disaster risk reduction.
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No two situations are the same. The effect of the climate, the security, the local authorities, media interests - it is always a mix of approaches. We have to adapt to these different situations....
The speaker chaired a discussion on a number of shelter and settlement issues. Topics included:
- the need for training and certification of humanitarian workers in transitional...
The speaker outlined their project plan for the development of guidelines supporting the use of bamboo in humanitarian response. Regional workshops had already been undertaken to inform its...
Mr. Øyvind Nordlie (NRC) presented on NRC's efforts concerning urban assistance in Baghdad.
The pilot project aims to initiate...
The Humanitarian Yellow Pages is a Non-for-profit initiative developed by EMBA Studens of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Social Entrepreneurs in...
Sphere is a process which recognises the systemic approach, meaning what someone does in one section affects all the others realted to the first, emphasizing the...
This new session format, proposed by participants at SM06a, was to
discuss topics raised by participants during the course of the
Meeting. The session was co-chaired by Esteban Leon...