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Th is study analyzes the key challenges facing the urban poor, given the risks
associated with climate change and disasters, particularly with regard to the
delivery of basic services...
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...
In the immediate aftermath of a devastating earthquake that struck Indonesia’s West Sumatra region in 2009, CRS conducted a rapid assessment and focused our program on the construction of...
This report explores the effects of cash transfers on local markets. It tests the hypothesis that ˜cash transfers to poor households lead to integration of markets in remote areas and strengthen...
A presentation of a case study regarding Bhutanese refugees in the Jhapa camp in Nepal in 1997.
Learning From Urban Transitional Settlement Response in the Philippines offers reflections and questions to ask oneself when faced with similar urban disasters to improve future transitional...
A report on creating earthquake resistant housing that considers indigenous principles, knowledge and techniques on the island Nias in Indonesia.
A Case Study of Policy on Informal Settlements. Includes information on housing, financing, maintenance, poverty and land tenure.
This publication documents CRS' experience in implementing an urban transitional settlement program in response to the destruction caused by Tropical Storm “Washi” in Cagayan de Oro in the...
On the night of December 17, 2011, Tropical Storm Washi (locally known as Sendong) made landfall on the southern Philippine islands, causing heavy rains in northern Mindanao and parts of the...