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Preliminary Appeal No. 02/2002Launched on: 18 January 2002 for three months for CHF 1, 533, 000 to assist 250, 000 beneficiaries. Revised to Full Appeal No. 02/02 on 15 February 2002 for CHF 4,...
This publication has been produced to rapidly respond to the need for transitional shelter solutions in emergencies in providing a œmenu? of engineered, quantified and costed solutions drawn upon...
This booklet is aimed to help humanitarian aid workers make more informed decisions on the use of plastic sheeting in emergencies. The target audience includes programme managers, � eld based...
One of the biggest problem areas identified by the IASC Global Shelter Cluster is getting reliable assessments of housing and settlements needs after a crisis. This publication seeks to help fill...
On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9. 0 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a series of massive tsunamis that devastated communities in 10 countries surrounding the Indian...
Sector overview
USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) remains at the forefront of the humanitarian community’s shelter and settlements (S&S) activities, all...
The second edition of the ˜Shelter Projects 2009' is an institutional collaboration between two key organisations involved in shelter and settlements after disasters, IFRC and UNHABITAT. It...
One of the more exciting innovations in the response to humanitarian crises of recent years has been the use of cash. Across the humanitarian sector there is growing recognition that cash and...
Shelter Module is one of ten products and services for sector support being developed by Shelter Centre and collaborating organisations between 2006 and 2009. The Shelter Module is a new emergency...
In an ideal world, the space required for ‘shipping’, in other words for the unloading of stock from incoming transport and the subsequent loading of the outbound transport, would be calculated...