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Alternative Shelter solutions explain IFRC's Self-sheltering Programme in Haiti. Providing safe and improved shelter solutions which help people to leave overcrowded camps and allow them to...
The presentation offers a case study from Vietnam, where annual flooding in the Mekong delta caused damage to one million homes. The case study illustrates how, instead of makeshift repairs using...
The 2nd Asia-Pacific Housing Forum (first in 2007 hosted in Singapore) took place in the Philippines on 7 – 9th September 2009 and was attended by 440 delegates from 36 countries. The forum...
This book addresses sustainable planning and construction after natural events such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc. and asserts it is yet possible, in theory and in practice, to construct...
This evaluation of the World Bank’s experience with natural disasters was done by the Independent Evaluation Group–World Bank at the request of the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors. It comes at...
Special Issue 35, August 2007. Main sections: Vulnerable communities at the center of results, CBDRM as a disaster reduction approach is on a tipping point, communities as the base of disaster...
This evaluation of the World Bank's experience with natural disasters was done by the Independent Evaluation Group“World Bank at the request of the Bank's Board of Executive Directors....
The present report focuses on the realization of the right to adequate housing in post-disaster settings. The report assesses human rights standards and guidelines relevant to an approach to...
The paper is based on evidence from a sample of 60 special schools drawn from each of the Karachi region areas. The survey evidence was gathered by the investigators personal visits of each school...
Beginning in late July 2010, the flood waters in what was to
become Pakistan's worst natural disaster began to spread. Homes, businesses
and thousands of acres of farmland were...