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The direct impact of effective shelter and settlement assistance primarily include climate protection, immediate safety and security, privacy, and dignity and facilitating access to additional...
Despite UNHCR regulations that call for adequate ...
This issue of Humanitarian Exchange, co-edited by the Humanitarian Practice Network and the Security Management Initiative (SMI) in Geneva, focuses entirely on staff safety and security.
A common humanitarian action plan made by the clusters. Focusing on the greatest needs and on better assisting and protecting the most vulnerable people and provides humanitarian actors and donors...
This paper examines the challenges facing the protracted crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo as they relate to the international response in eastern DRC, with a particular focus on the...
The "Shelter in Urban Emergencies" Collection is a RedR UK training event, developed in conjuction with Lloyds Trust. The aim of the training is to bring together ...
The Sphere Project and its Handbook frame a Humanitarian Charter, identify a set of minimum standards in key life-saving sectors and consolidate their core standards. In the 2011 revision, the...
Measuring and mitigating risk: preventing protracted emergencies from becoming the new norm. On 4 December 2018, Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock jointly launched the Global Humanitarian Overview (...
This group discussed the role of emergency shelter and its relation to urban infrastructure, along with urban settlements and focus on the preparedness phase. These notes, along with...
This discussion covered the hardware, tools and guidance within the context of training and guidance in the shelter sector. These discussions included...