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This Field Operations Guide (FOG) for Disaster Assessment and Response has been developed by the U. S. Agency for International Development/Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian...
The idea of distributing cash relief in famines is controversial. Although it is increasingly recognised that food aid serves not purely as a nutritional intervention, but also as a transfer of an...
Following a wave of violence that reached its' peak June 10-14, 2010 in the southern city of Osh inthe Kyrgyz Republic (commonly called Kyrgyzstan), Save the Children has launched an...
This document identifies and analyses the global risks which arise from extreme geophysical events. 'On a vast scale, global geophysical events (GGEs) are natural phenomena capable of having...
The Aceh Community Assistance Research Project hasbeen a joint endeavour supported by the Agency forthe Rehabilitation and Reconstruction for the Region andCommunity of Aceh and Nias (BRR), the...
Cost-effectiveness analysis is not the same as cost-benefit analysis. It does not entail valuation of human life or quantification of human suffering, and is of use in those situations where...
Recovery community development following large disasters incorporate many initiativestowards realizing a œsafe and secure community development?. In the Kobe area in particular, there are many...
While there is little information on the availability of cyclone shelters prior to cyclone Nargis, a total of 358 cyclone-resistant community buildings (includes completed, under construction and...
National Sector Assessment and Overview of WASH Programme in Madagascar.
The earthquake on January 12, 2010 has caused an unprecedented situation in Haiti with enormousrepercussions affecting all sectors of society, well beyond the areas directly affected by the...