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- A collaboration: USAID, OCHA, UN Environment, UNHCR, WWF, MSB, NRC, IUCN & other stakeholders
- Seeks to improve the use of environmental data &...
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...
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...
This resource highlights priorities for family housing in New Zealand with specific focus on children and covers the following topics: Childrens housing needs in relation to sizes of households...
This resource highlights the effects of housing on the mental health of older people in new zealand and covers the following topics: Background- Differences in tragectories of self reported mental...
This presentation highlights how health trajectories and housing paths are linked and covers the following topics: Working with health capital; Housing as a health capital; Health and the housing...
This infographic made by the UN Environment/OCHA Joint Unit displays statistics regarding the usage of the Environmental Emergencies website, which you are currently browsing, during the year 2015...
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...
Displacement of people as a result of conflict is not a new phenomenon – but today it represents an unprecedented global challenge. The gap between the needs of growing numbers of displaced people...