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INFORM is a global, open-source risk assessment tool for humanitarian crises and disasters. It can support decisions about prevention, preparedness, and response and can be used to measure the...
This technical brief highlights the impact of floods and storms on the livelihoods of livestock-dependent vulnerable communities and on global food security. It provides specific guidance on how...
This resource aims to describe the burden of fires in displaced persons settlements and identify interventions/innovations that might address gaps in current humanitarian guidelines. The resource...
The impacts of fire are beginning to be recognised as a significant risk in informal settlements, but are still often overshadowed by the focus on formal built settlements. This Framework has been...
This guideline aims to promote best practices of prevention, preparedness and response that will reduce fire-related hazards among the residents of informal settlements, residential and non-...
Fire-related injuries are strongly associated with low-income and informal/temporary settlements, which are growing rapidly in an urbanising world. Fire policy and mitigation strategies in poorer...
- A collaboration: USAID, OCHA, UN Environment, UNHCR, WWF, MSB, NRC, IUCN & other stakeholders
- Seeks to improve the use of environmental data &...
The toolkit on 'Participatory Techniques' helps various stakeholders to promote social participation in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of strategies, programmes and/or...
Significant numbers of dead fish were reported in the river La Pasión in the Petén region in Guatemala during two instances in April and June 2015. Pesticide contamination or the depletion of...