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This document is produced as part of an IFRC/Oxfam funded project to develop guidance on the use and procurement of plastic sheeting.
Report from the First International Symposium on Post-Primary Education for Refugees and IDPs “ 18-19 September 2002, Geneva. Outlines various workshops and speakers.
In this paper, a study on the various indigenous materials used for the constuction of the traditional houses of Myanmar is made. The aim of the study is to collect the basic data for further...
In response to Cyclone Indlala, Red Cross staff and volunteers as well as the local authorities and other partners mobilized themselves to provide food and non-food items, conduct water and...
This paper attempts to examine the problem and challenges of public housing delivery in Nigeria. It highlights the nature and dimension of Nigeria’s housing problems. The various government...
This paper discusses organisational initiatives for resettlement of rural communities that have lost their houses due to various natural calamities like river erosion, flood, cyclone etc, in...
In General considerations, gender and related concepts are defined, followed by a description of the social structures that generate gender in equality and how they are constructed. Those...
In 1997 (Mbiba 1997) , I argued that communal lands do not offer secure tenure for the people living on them, and that while this insecurity prevails, the inhabitants of communal areas in Zimbabwe...
This report discusses housing for low income people and includes situation analysis, facts and figures, shelter design,and organization. It aims to analyse the cost of alternative building...
This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s...