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Flood Resilient Shelter Case Studies and Reports
Content Type: Collection
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Date: May 2020
Location: All Countries, Eastern Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, Colombia, Southern Asia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South-Eastern Asia, Philippines

This Collection contains reports and case studies relative to contexts of flood disaster response. The main topics are centered around how those who have been affected by floods can follow certain...

Learning Briefs from CRS’s Response, Recovery and Resilience (R3)...
Content Type: Collection
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Date: Sep 2019
Location: Barabados, Vietnam, Haiti, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia

These learning briefs share insights from disaster risk reduction projects in the Response, Recovery and Resilience (R3) program in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Haiti, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and...

Full Case Study Area- Based Approaches in Urban Settings: Compendium...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Urban Settlements Working Group (USWG)
Date: May 2019
Location: Turkey, Philippines, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Colombia, Lebanon, Kenya, Uganda, Central African Republic, Somalia, Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Tanzania

This Compendium is a pioneering collection of case studies describing area-based approaches to urban challenges (2010-2019). The case studies were sourced from multiple agencies, collected by the...

Social Protection and Labor– Disaster Risk Management Toolkit
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): World Bank
Date: Mar 2022
Location: All Countries, Japan, Mali, Mexico, Nepal

This toolkit was conceived for the use of two groups of World Bank Group (WBG) staff and consultants. The primary target users consist of social protection and labor (SPL) specialists who help WBG...

Mapping health systems’ responsiveness to refugee and migrant health
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): WHO
Date: Apr 2022
Location: All Countries, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Iran, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sudan, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda, USA

This mapping review has been developed to help countries to build capacities to address the health needs of refugees and migrants, thus promoting universal health coverage. The 2019 WHO Global...

Regional refugee protection in comparative perspective Lessons...
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Publisher(s): Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
Date: Jun 2022
Location: Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe

Regional cooperation has been a prominent feature of Australia's Asylum Policy across various contexts. Nonetheless, there has been little comparative research on regional refugee cooperation...

Localisation of humanitarian action in the Red Cross Red Crescent: A...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Date: Jul 2022
Location: Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Turkey

The World Humanitarian Summit of 2016 agreed a new agenda for “localization of aid", committing to a “Grand Bargain” to increase international investment in the leadership, capacity and delivery...

Border Shelter Toolkit
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): UNHCR
Date: Jul 2022
Location: United States of America

This compilation draws upon shelter models and best practices that have worked well in supporting asylum-seeking families and adults at the U.S. southern border and is rooted in international and...

Survivors, Protectors, Providers: Refugee Women Speak Out
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): UNHCR
Date: Sep 2022
Location: India, Colombia, Jordan, Uganda, Zambia, Thailand, and Finland

The Dialogues reinforced the importance of effective and sustained engagement with refugee communities in the process of developing protection strategies. Those refugees – men and women – who...

Trafficking of women and girls within Central America
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean
Date: Oct 2022
Location: Americas

As soon as migrants leave home soil with the intent of moving undetected, they enter into a shadowy world. They place their lives in the hands of strangers who flout the law, and many pay dearly...

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