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Date: Jul 2019
The CKM project will support USAID’s Water Office and its partners, to increase water sector program knowledge sharing and data collection, both internally and externally. This project will support...
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Publisher(s): ALNAP
Date: Jul 2019
Location: Guatemala, Haiti

This case study focuses on the context of Guatemala City, in particular its informal settlements. It explores how a disaster risk reduction (DRR) project, Barrio Mio, is working in this complex...

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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...

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Source Water Protection (SWP) has always been fundamental to water resources management. Source waters can deliver reliable and high-quality water services for drinking and domestic use, livestock...

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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...

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Date: Sep 2019
Location: Nicaragua

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...

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Date: Sep 2019
Location: Haiti

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...

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Date: Sep 2019
Location: Guatemala

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...

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Date: Sep 2019
Location: Pakistan, Eritrea, Haiti

This report begins with a discussion on why evidence matters, to inform and strengthen humanitarian response to emergencies. The report details why sex/ gender and age matter for evidenced based...

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Publisher(s): UN-Habitat/AXA
Date: Sep 2019

This publication builds upon extensive experience in post-disaster housing recovery efforts from all over the world. UN-Habitat has been supporting local government, construction sector...

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