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This volume debates and informs on themes such as housing, participation, and vulnerability in relation to large-scale post-disaster reconstruction. It is a contribution to ongoing debate in terms...
Disaster response in an urban environment presents a wide variety of challenges. Humanitarian organisations often have more experience of disaster response in rural settings, and local authorities...
The cluster approach was introduced as part of humanitarian reform in 2005. Itseeks to make humanitarian assistance more effective by introducing a systemof sectoral coordination with designated...
There is now substantive cumulative evidence that trade embargoes cause severe civilian hardship and profound social and economic dislocation. Their impact goes beyond humanitarian crisis to...
This architecture essay explores possible modifications to expand the use of the Oxfam Emergency Shelter (SES2).
Shelter SES2 is an emergency shelter designed to house refugees in disaster...
Plenty is known about the capacity of people and their organisations to create and improve their own shelter. Much less is known about the links between government and commercial private interests...
Conflicts force people to leave their homes. Indeed, one of the measures of the severity of a conflict – in addition to casualties and duration – is the extent to which people have been displaced...
Eleven case studies are included in the TLS 2013 that have been implemented in response to flooding, earthquake and conflict. This year’s case studies illustrate different types of child-friendly...
SYRIA: Work done by the shelter sector in Syria and its members to launch, in partnership with the national and local authorities, a multi-sector prioritization exercise for the rehabilitation of...
The Endline Learning Report - Final, Global, Women's Participation Pilot Project, 2017, resource is the result of a collaborative effort between the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and the...