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The purpose of the upgrade is to upgrade slum tenements and provide new housing for beneficiaries. Its goal is to help improve living conditions among the urban poor by having the beneficiaries...
Recognising the need for each country susceptible to disasters to have appropriateconstruction standards, the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), with financialassistance from the Government of...
The Aceh Community Assistance Research Project hasbeen a joint endeavour supported by the Agency forthe Rehabilitation and Reconstruction for the Region andCommunity of Aceh and Nias (BRR), the...
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...
Case study prepared as part of a project, Evaluation of PostDisasterHousing Education as a Local Mitigation Approach. It examines the post-cyclone reconstruction program designed and conducted...
Recent devastating losses in earthquakes to housing around the world highlight the need to share information on building construction practices and strengthening technologies. The Earthquake...
Matti Kuittinen from Finn Church Aid / Aalto University presented "Assessment of sustainable development in humanitarian construction" at Shelter Meeting 12a.
... Paper presented at the Building Abroad Conference on procurement of construction and reconstruction projects in the international context. Organised by the IF Research Group, Universite de...
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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...