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Rural housing is more complex than urban housing as it usually has to cope not only with human beings but with livestock as well. There is also usually a need for covered space for all sorts of...
When constructing houses, it is important to design them with simple designs to enable persons with disability (PWDs) to have access to houses. These designs should be included at the start itself...
Adobe mud blocks are one of the oldest and most widely used building materials. Use of these sun-dried blocks dates back to 8000 B. C. (Houben and Guillard 1994, referenced in EERI adobe tutorial...
Galvanised Wire Reinforcement (GWR) can be used as earthquake reinforcement for non-engineerd dressed and semi-dressed stone walls, adobe, soil block and rammed earth building constructions. In...
This manual has been prepared to assist in the restoration and retrofitting of structures located in therural areas of earthquake affected Kashmir, situated in the northernmost area of India and...
The Maternal and Newborn Health Research and Advocacy Fund (RAF) is a five year national programme funded by DFID and AusAID - which aims to support research and advocacy initiatives to influence...
This guidance note aims to support and expand on the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Minimum Standards content in order to provide a reference tool for conflict sensitive...
The Short Guide to Rapid Joint Education Needs Assessments is part of a larger
toolkit produced by the Global Education Cluster in 2010 called The Joint
Education Needs Assessment...
In a disaster response operation, the provision of shelter assistance can be an extremely complex process to manage, particularly as the response transitions from the relief phase and into...
States have the obligation to protect the rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to the same standard as that for all citizens. Humanitarian agencies are frequently called upon to support...