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"With growing numbers of displaced people in towns and cities, humanitarian and development actors need to rethink approaches to helping the urban displaced live in security and with dignity...
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...
The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), an independent, international non-governmental human rights organisation based in Geneva, then conducted a fact-finding mission in July 2004,...
This report explores both the negative and positive aspects of slums. On the negative side, the report shows that slums have the most intolerable of urban housing conditions, which frequently...
Interlocking Stabilised Soil Block (ISSB) technology has been gaining recognition, particularly in East Africa. This material and method of construction has the advantages of low cost and minimal...
The authors would first and foremost like to thank the many IDPs, Afghan refugees and residents of Peshawar who generously gave their time to be interviewed for this study, as well as key...
This book reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, including those driven by climate change and related disasters, and identifies...
Despite the hundreds of shelter projects completed around the world every year after conflicts and natural disasters, there are few compilations of case studies and best practices. As a result, an...
Many different people and organizations want information about settlements but collecting such information is never a neutral exercise, particularly in poorer areas. People in such settlements...
By the end of 2009, over 43 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution. In addition, during 2009, 335 reported natural disasters killed over 10, 000...