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Following the December 26, 2004 disaster in Indonesia, damaged roads, a devastated physical and human infrastructureand limited air assets posed huge challenges to early aid efforts. A systematic...
Service Availability Mapping (SAM) in Uganda was conducted by Uganda's Ministry of Health(MoH) resource centre and the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2004. The goal wasto collect...
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...
This Guide suggests how the Health Cluster lead agency, coordinator and partners can work together during a humanitarian crisis to achieve the aims of reducing avoidable mortality, morbidity and...
When constructing houses, it is important to design them with simple designs to enable persons with disability (PWDs) to have access to houses. These designs should be included at the start itself...
Nearly half the world cooks on three-stone fires or basic stoves causing indoor air pollution. This technical brief looks at reducing this pollution.
Hurricane Ivan struck Grenada on September 7, 2004. The international and local communities responded with a massive reconstruction and recovery effort. Although the job is far from finished, the...
A report on the emergency and humanitarian situation in Timore Leste