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Case study in order to learn more about how legislation can support ot impede disaster risk reduction, particularly at the community level.
Professional standards for protection work carried out by humanitarian and human rights actors in armed conflict and other situations of violence.
The basic strategy of the community-based disaster preparedness programme is for the Mozambique Red Cross Society to facilitate the creation of local disaster committees in each target community,...
Recommends legal and policy measures to minimize legal barriers and encourages effective national and international responses to disasters and communicable diseases in Cambodia.
A shelter case study on shelter construction in Guatemala after the 1976 earthquake.
A shelter case study on materials distribution and training after the Guatemala earthquake 1976.
A short video regarding construction of a bamboo shelter in Indonesia. It provides guidelines on how to proceed the building process.
Case study on the 2008 conflict in Somalia and the shelter programmes.
This booklet is a companion to "How to build a safer shelter" designed for village carpenters.
This film shows how to build a safer wooden shelter and serves as tutorial on hurricane resistant techniques.