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This paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learned from relief responses to past earthquakes. The October 2005 South Asia earthquake presents unique challenges, particularly of scale and...
The humanitarian situation in southern Kyrgyzstan evolved rapidly with mass displacement and rapidreturn of the refugees and some of the IDPs occurring over a period of two weeks. This fluid...
The massive earthquake that struck northern parts of Pakistan and India on 8 October 2005 led to
the loss of more than 75 000 lives, severely injured approximately 100 000 and left 2.8...
This book provides information on selecting, specifying, procuring, using, and distributing timber and bamboo as construction materials for small and medium-sized buildings in humanitarian...
Ce plan de contingence, élaboré pour la première fois en 2007 à travers la structure de coordination existante, le Bureau National de Gestion des Risques et des Catastrophes (BNGRC), a montré son...
This study, based on recent interviews and field research in eastern DRC, provides new evidence to support a far higher priority to be given for assistance to hosted IDPs and their host families....
Foreign and Congolese armed groups are positioning themselves for the campaign and post-electoral periods in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Despite further reorganization, the Forces...
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...
Kenya was the first country in the world to use mobile phones for cash transfers; through a service called M-PESA, developed by Safaricom Limited. Concern Worldwide has pioneered the use of M-PESA...
Following the violent eruptions of the Soufriere Hills volcano in 1995 the Island of Montserrat suffered extensive damage and loss to its housing stock. The post disaster reconstruction Program...