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The IASC Shelter Cluster prioritised a review of the shelter needs of families in emergency shelter. A large number are expected to remain in emergency shelter during 2011 or longer. The majority...
Securing space for an education response in humanitarian
appeals and for the inclusion of education during the
first phase response to rapid onset emergencies poses
significant...
This note highlights that sourcing of timber for transitional and permanent shelter is a key environemtnal issue related to the Haiti Recovery Program. it focuses on the areas of concern and...
The purpose of this note is to provide information about, and provisional guidance for implementation of the key operational elements of resolution 1960
In 2006–07, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) initiated research to identify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The findings of the research were presented in the Guidance Notes...
Worldwide, approximately 1. 2 billion students are enrolled in primary and secondary school; of these, 875 million school children live in high seismic risk zones and hundreds of millions more...
Notes from experience in post-earthquake rural housing reconstruction in Pakistan.
In international responses to humanitarian crises, some sectors have in the past benefitedfrom having clearly mandated lead agencies, while others have not. This has repeatedly ledto ad hoc,...