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In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human...
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

This report explores how environmental shocks and stresses, especially those related to climate change, can push people to leave their homes in search of œgreener pastures? ¦ or just to survive....

Special feature: The crisis in the Sahel
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Publisher(s): Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Kenya, Somalia, Chad, Mali, Niger, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Myanmar

This issue of the journal 'Humanitairan Exchange', has a special feature which focuses on the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel region of Africa, where aid agencies estimate that more...

Developing Locally Affordable Hazard Resistant House
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Publisher(s): Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Date: Jul 2020
Location: India

With the increase in the magnitude and frequency of disasters, coupled with diminishing funding available for post disaster reconstruction, it is rare that all families affected by disasters will...

Strategic Plan for the Remainder of the IHRC'S Mandate
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Haiti

In July, six months after the earthquake, only 19 % of pledged funds had beendisbursed. The domestic community was still in shock and the internationalcommunity voiced a crucial need for everyone...

Refugees perception of their shelters and technical solutions to...
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Publisher(s): Shelter/NFI Sector
Date: Jul 2022
Location: Cox Bazar, Bangladesh

Karolina Brach, shelter sector coordinator in Cox Bazar and Magnus Wolfe Murray, Humanitarian Advisor, FCDO, expounded some of the issues of the shelter situation in Cox’s Bazar camps. The...

Introduction to Humanitarianism in Urban Settings
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Date: Aug 2018
Location: London
ABOUT THE COURSE Aid agencies in recent urban emergencies have often lacked the ability to respond effectively in these environments. The urban context is much more complex than many rural or camp...