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The earthquake in Pakistan affected some of the most remote and inaccessible rural mountain communities who live at elevations of up to 5,000 feet. This presented numerous logistical and...
Focus Group Meeting regarding WaSH and shelter appropriate technology at the ECHO PAK office
The approach of the One Room Shelter Programme that IOM (the UN Migration Agency) Pakistan implemented to meet the recovery needs of affected populations in 2010 marked a move away from the usual...
Shelter Projects 2010 is the third annual compilation of shelter programmes. This book contains summaries of shelter projects that have been implemented in response to conflicts, complex...
Housing Scenario
Pakistan's annual requirement for construction of houses is more than 500,000 housing units to meet the backlog of 20 years. At present the number of housing units...
The round table was preceded by an overview of the shelter response to date in Pakistan, where they worked respectively for CRS and CARE.
Excerpts from discussions
NB: The...
Almost six months after Pakistan’s 2012 flood emergency began, hundreds of thousands of people
still need help to meet their basic needs, including clean water, food, shelter, health and...
On October 8, 2005, a violent earthquake of 7.6 magnitude on the Richter scale jolted northern Pakistan (epicenter 95km northeast of Islamabad), causing entire villages to disappear under a pile...