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Summarizes information on wood as an engineering material. Presents properties of wood and wood-based products of particular concern to the architect and engineer. Includes discussion of designing...
The Guidance Notes on Recovery: Shelter was developed as collaboration between the international Recovery Platform (IRP) and United Nations Development Programme India (UNDP-India). IRP...
This UNDP'sguideline deals with the institutionalization of disaster risk management in Timor Leste. The Council of Ministers intended to create an institutional system enabling to reach...
This Guide suggests how the Health Cluster lead agency, coordinator and partners can work together during a humanitarian crisis to achieve the aims of reducing avoidable mortality, morbidity and...
In a disaster response operation, the provision of shelter assistance can be an extremely complex process to manage. It is the mandate of the Shelter Cluster to contribute to the effective and...
The shelter coordination team (SCT) has a number of key roles that are deployed each time a Shelter Cluster is activated in response to a disaster. There are a number of additional positions, such...
The shelter coordination team (SCT) serves as a ?secretariat? of the Shelter Cluster, providing coordination services to shelter agencies. There are key positions in the SCT and others which can...
As convener of the Shelter Cluster for natural disasters, the IFRC aims to support shelter agencies in their shelter response through the provision of coordination services. This process is...
Early recovery is a vital element of an effective humanitarian crisis response, where early recovery addresses recovery needs during the humanitarian phase, using humanitarian mechanisms in...
In the aftermath of an emergency, affected communities will need to restart agricultural and other livelihoods activities as soon as possible. However, initiating agricultural/livelihoods projects...