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Humanitarian challenges of urbanization
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

More than one billion people nowadays live as slum-dwellers in informal settlements
characterized by vulnerability and poverty. The ‘normal’ situation in slums can, in
several ways, be...

When disaster and conflicts collide
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): UKaid
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

The problem is that the evidence for how conflict and disasters interrelate is fractured, highly context-specific and poorly understood (see Annex 1 for an assessment of the evidence base). Do...

Handbook for Estimating the Socio-economic and Environmental Effects...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Date: Jun 2014
Location: South America, Caribbean

This revised Handbook incorporates new and significant developments while refining and improving the methodology for damage assessment contained in several sections included in the first version...

Haiti: Alternative Shelter Solutions
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Haiti

Alternative Shelter solutions explain IFRC's Self-sheltering Programme in Haiti. Providing safe and improved shelter solutions which help people to leave overcrowded camps and allow them to...

Shelter and Haiti
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Haiti

This video published by the IFRC on December 2010 shows the Red Cross building transitional shelters in Haiti.
Session 4.2: Strategy Development for Shelter
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World
Learning Objectives: By the end of this session participants should 1. have a good knowledge of designing an agency project plan (shelter strategy)  Key Learning Points 1. The USAID...
Session 4.3: Implementing an agency project plan (shelter strategy)
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World
Key Learning Objectives By the end of this session participants should: 1. understand and able to explain what a strategy is, and what is its value 2. identify and understand components of a...
Session 4.1: Shelter options
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World
Learning Objectives By the end of this session participants should be able to: 1. understand how implementation falls within the post-disaster phases 2. have an understanding of the steps to...
Day 4: Shelter response exercise
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World
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Session 5.1: Global trends
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World
Key Learning Objectives: By the end of this session participants should: 1. have a basic understanding of the global trends and how they are affecting and will affect shelter and settlement...

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