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This presentation is a global overview of the projects implemented by CARE from 2005, which involved 48 countries all over the globe. The post-disaster situation due...
Central America is the subcontinent with most natural calamities. We analyze the results of reconstruction projects after the 1976 Guatemalan earthquake and after Hurricane Mitch in 1998 in...
Every year, natural events, such as earthquakes, floods, storms, heatwaves and droughts cause huge humanitarian and economic damage around the world. Although we are now better able to identify...
The September 21st, 2009 earthquake in Eastern Bhutan, has been the most devastating disaster faced by Bhutan in recent times from this disaster, the government has further realized the importance...
This construction book is an example of the on-going efforts to help in the reconstruction of Haiti. It is an handbook on how to construct and maintain masonry buildings in Haiti. It provides...
The examples on which I will draw include those of Alto Mayo where 7, 000 homes were rebuilt after the 1990 earthquake and the regional reconstruction Program undertaken by the Corporation...
This handbook documents Catholic Relief Service's experience in planning and implementing its urban transitional shelter response in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The handbook highlights challenges...
The speaker described the role of early recovery. The speaker stressed the need to start early recovery in parallel with relief operations, presenting them as complementary ways of assisting a...
Maggie Stephenson, UN-Habitat, offered an additional presentation and then
opened the discussion on the aftermath of the Pakistan earthquake in
which some 600,000 houses had been...
This report emerges from Ian Davis's visit to Haiti in November 2011, to examine progresswith reconstruction approximately twenty-two months after the earthquake. His visit onlylasted three...