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During and immediately after a crisis, national actors and the international community focus primarilyon meeting immediate life-saving needs. Human lives are at risk and quick action is required...
The purpose of the Uganda mission was in part to fulfil the general terms of reference for the HelpAge International/UNHCR secondment to provide support to the global Protection Cluster Working...
While there is little information on the availability of cyclone shelters prior to cyclone Nargis, a total of 358 cyclone-resistant community buildings (includes completed, under construction and...
The purpose of the global capacity-building exercise is to ensure predictable and sufficient response capacity exists at the global level to complement national-led responses to humanitarian...
Breakout Group 2
David Stone, ProAct, and Magnus Wolfe Murray, RESET, led a
discussion on responding to climate change. They described how all
forecasts show an...
This book seeks to demonstrate how disaster risk management and adaptation could be better integrated into urban development planning (i. e. social housing, slum upgrading and urban governance...
The presentation looks at the work HAP International has done to improve accountability in the humanitarian sector, a sector with a much worse record for accountability than many other sectors....
In this paper a set of models are developed using neural network (NN) technique. It is observed that NN technique can be applied successfully to predict the casualties and damages caused by...
This Scoping Study is part of DFID's strategic effort to assess the significance of disaster risk in its development work. It aims to explore evidence on linkages between poverty alleviation...
Assessment is a vital element of the programme planning process. It provides the information on which decisions will be made. The use of a standard methodology means that the information obtained...