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This is the resource which focuses around urban development planning, gender and social and social justice in a post-disaster recovery and also gender in the urban context.
In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan devastated large areas of the Philippines causing significant loss of life and destroying approximately one million homes. Through the Post-...
Bill Flinn, Holly Schofield and Luisa Miranda Morel's article The case for self-recovery, addresses the situation in which most families recovering from the catastrophe of a disaster...
The term ‘self-recovery’ in the humanitarian shelter sector refers to the process whereby disaster-affected households repair, build or rebuild their shelter themselves or through local builders....
The Global Shelter Cluster’s “...
This working paper by Overseas Development Institute (also available in Filipino and Nepali) presents the findings from a pilot research project that investigated...
In this discussion the group examined and agreed upon the overarching definitions of the terms below covering self-recovery, repair and retrofitting. Also...
Keiko Saito, Cambridge University, presented 'ReBuilDD', a consortium of organisations specialising in collecting data for M&E activities.
This brief provides an overview of The effectiveness and efficiency of interventions supporting shelter self-recovery following humanitarian crises – an evidence synthesis published in...