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This handbook documents Catholic Relief Service’s experience in planning and implementing its urban transitional shelter response in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The publication highlights challenges,...
Chilean heritage areas were the most affected after the 2010 earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale), mainly due to poor maintenance and scarce funding, but also because of applied reconstruction...
This presentation exposes the relevance of disaster management by governments in order to preserve their representativeness with people. The lack of reconstruction policies and aid in disaster...
Sometimes you fall upon things. The talk will focus on the observation (and the findings) of a (short) 10 day initial research trip to Parque S. Bartolomeu in Salvador da Bahia, Brasil where we...
Shelter Cluster Haiti
Transitional Shelter technical guidance
If for any reason you have decided to use flush toilets at your project and are not connected to a mains sewage treatment system, then it is most likely that you will have an underground septic...
A report describing best practice after the 2010 disaster in Haiti.
The Disaster Relief Shelter, known as DRS, is designed to serve as a responsive but also a
transitional shelter for victims of natural disasters in Indonesia.
The Technical WASH Review of Gonaïves took place in March 2009, facilitated by an independent consultant, commissioned by ACF-UK and funded by UNICEF through the Global WASH Cluster. As part of...
This document provides an overview of current thinking and emerging good practice related to humanitarian action in an urban environment. It is based on the discussions held at the 27th Meeting of...