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The Disaster Relief Shelter, known as DRS, is designed to serve as a responsive but also a
transitional shelter for victims of natural disasters in Indonesia.
Disaster response in an urban environment presents a wide variety of challenges. Humanitarian organisations often have more experience of disaster response in rural settings, and local authorities...
This case study examines functioning of UNOPS in this country and its role in bringing about peaceful development through implementing programs. It places them in the broader context of civil...
The Coalition for Adolescent Girls was initiated in 2005 by the United Nations Foundation and the Nike Foundation, and has been joined by more than 30 leading international organizations, to bring...
This project was designed to build recovery capacity for poor families who were severely affected by the coffee leaf rust disease on their farms through the development of production systems that...
This project helped the government institute a cholera risk reduction system in Artibonite department. It provided technical support to senior health staff and community health workers in four...
This project focused on agricultural extension efforts to help smallholder coffee-farming families to control coffee leaf rust disease. The size of their plots was only a hectare on average and...
This handbook documents the experience of Catholic Relief Services in planning and implementing its urban transitional shelter response in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The publication highlights...
Overview of shelter building in Guatemala after tropical storm Agatha
What does resilience mean to vulnerable communities? This question is crucial when designing initiatives to promote disaster risk reduction and resilience. Catholic Relief Services interviewed...