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Burundi Risk Profile
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Prevention Web
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Burundi

This risk profile is an analysis of the mortality and economic loss risk for three weather-related hazards: tropical cyclones, floods and landslides. In addition new insights have been gained into...

New Rugo
Content Type: Resource
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Burundi

Model of possible architecture of buildings that can be used in Burundi.
Housing Typologies: A case study in Addis Ababa
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Ethiopia

This research in Building Ethiopia - Sustainability and Innovation in Architecture and Design (volume I) poses an attempt to understand the dwelling typologies in the city of Addis Ababa in order...

Technical Manual Volume II - Low Cost Housing
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Federal Republic of Germany
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Ethiopia

Technical manual on building low cost housing in Ethiopia. Morover, the Manual includes a construction guideline "step by step" meant to support site supervisor and site engineers to...

The key steps in establishing community managed disaster risk...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): FARM-Africa
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Ethiopia

This manual describes the key elements in FARM-Africa’s approach to Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) at Kebele and Woreda level, based on its experiences in the South Omo Zone of...

Bamboo Shelter - A transitional Shelter Solution for Dollo Ado Area
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Ethiopia

A guide including description and construction steps for a bamboo shelter solution.
Technical Brief 1 - Contingency Planning and Preparedness
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia

This technical brief looks at the role of contigency planning and emergency preparedness in early response based on RELPA-ELMT program experiences. The history of contigency planning in the region...

Building Future: The Application of Local Construction Technologies...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Ethiopia

This article in Building Ethiopia - Sustainability and Innovation in Architecture and Design (volume I) takes a look on the capital of Ethiopia as an ideal situation where the urban phenomena of...

Earthen Masonry Vaulting: Technologies and Technology Transfer
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Ethiopia

This article in Building Ethiopia - Sustainability and Innovation in Architecture and Design (Volume I) discusses the implementation of two vaulting construction techniques in the context of...

Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction: Experiences from the Horn...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development Aid (CORDAID)International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda

This book presents stories of real communities in three countries struggling with conflict,
drought management and loss of lives and property through floods. It provides a context
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