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This film shows how to build a safer wooden shelter and serves as tutorial on hurricane resistant techniques.
This video published by the IFRC in 2011 explains PASSA, a participatory tool that allows communities to improve their living environment, build safer shelters and design better settlements.
The speaker outlined the Movements shelter response to the August 2007 earthquake in Peru, which included the building of 5,000 transitional shelters for disaster-affected families.
The Shelter Research Unit is the back office research to support field practitioners with a final aim of finding better construction materials and new technical solutions.
These guidelines provide advice on how to carry out an assessment. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement) is involved in a wide variety of situations. Each assessment...
This review of the Phillippine Floods Shelter Working Group (MSWG) is the second review commissioned by the Shelter Department of the International Federation of Red Cross and Crescent Societies...
Between 22 October and 1 November 1998, Hurricane Mitch, a 180-mph Category 5 storm, theworst to hit the Gulf of Mexico in 200 years, swept through a number of Central Americancountriesdevastating...
All Under One Roof aims to bridge the gap between good intentions and practical implementation by offering technical guidance for disability-inclusive shelter and settlement support in emergencies...
The strategic framework guiding œP&V? (Principles and Values)Strategy 2010, Influence behaviour in the communityInternational Federation Global Agenda, Goal 4: The reduction of intolerance,...
The following case study outlines the role of the cluster coordinator, as well as the key activities and services he/she provides, and the impact it has on the shelter response.