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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...
The American Red Cross Response to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma
This report will details recovery efforts that state government made in the 12-24 month period after Hurricane Katrina. A summary of the work of the federal government, local governments,...
The cluster approach was introduced as part of humanitarian reform in 2005. Itseeks to make humanitarian assistance more effective by introducing a systemof sectoral coordination with designated...
The below document summarizes the main issues emerging from three exercises: Development of an Analytical Framework against which to assess efforts toimplement the cluster approach at the field...
The strategic framework guiding œP&V? (Principles and Values)Strategy 2010, Influence behaviour in the communityInternational Federation Global Agenda, Goal 4: The reduction of intolerance,...
Plenty is known about the capacity of people and their organisations to create and improve their own shelter. Much less is known about the links between government and commercial private interests...
The report looks at disasters primarily through an economic lens. Economists emphasize self-interest to explain how people choose the amount of prevention, insurance, and coping. But lenses can...
The consequences of living in hazard-prone areas were brought home by graphic television coverage of the hurricanes that devastated the Gulf coast of the USA in 2005. Hurricane Katrina, in...