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Closing of a Burundian refugee camp situated in Tanzania and outlining outcomes.
As disasters are registered across the world, each gets its own unique identifier for use by all sectors. This is the central database of all global disaster identifiers.
Presentation on housing safety.
This presentation provides an earthquake risk assessment of Mandalay city in Myanmar. It identifies areas of potentially high seismic risk, which will allow national and local authorities to make...
Lecture notes for Health Science Students on Disaster prevention and preparedness in order to define disaster, hazard, vulnerability and risk, describe the types and the causes of disasters,...
The IASC Shelter Cluster prioritised a review of the shelter needs of families in emergency shelter. A large number are expected to remain in emergency shelter during 2011 or longer. The majority...
Humanitarian agencies are warning of a looming food crisis in parts of the Central African Republic (CAR), a result of the insecurity that has displaced thousands of people and disrupted...
Commitments agreed upon by representatives in Paris on 2 March 2005, and again in Accra on 4 September 2008, on how international, national, and local actors shall increase the long-term...
The 2010 food crisis in the Sahel has affected millions of men, women and children. The humanitarian response, although too slow and insufficient, did at least allow the worst to be avoided....
How do we undertake shelter and reconstruction programs in countries where land and property ownership issues are understood through customary and religious law? What new forms of ownership,...