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Technical WASH Review in Gonaïves
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Action contre la Faim International (ACF)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Haiti

The Technical WASH Review of Gonaïves took place in March 2009, facilitated by an independent consultant, commissioned by ACF-UK and funded by UNICEF through the Global WASH Cluster. As part of...

Meeting the Urban Challenge
Content Type: Resource
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Afghanistan, Haiti, India, World

This document provides an overview of current thinking and emerging good practice related to humanitarian action in an urban environment. It is based on the discussions held at the 27th Meeting of...

Responding to urban disasters: Learning from previous relief and...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)ProVention Consortium
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haiti, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Japan, Turkey, United States of America

Disaster response in an urban environment presents a wide variety of challenges. Humanitarian organisations often have more experience of disaster response in rural settings, and local authorities...

The Face of Recovery
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): American Red Cross
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Belize, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, United States of America

The American Red Cross Response to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma
Rebuilding 101 manual: rebuilding strategies for Haiti
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Architecture for Humanity
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Haiti

This manual seeks to provide basic advice on proper construction methods and job site safetyspecific to rebuilding efforts in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake. Haiti is in the initialstages...

General Recommendations for Improved Building Practices in Earthquake...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Architecture for Humanity
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Haiti

This document was prepared for œArchitecture for Humanity? in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. It is intended to provide some general recommendations for improved building practices in...

Judicial Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: The Colombian...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, previously Refugee Policy Group
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Colombia

This publication of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement provides the first comprehensive analysis of the role of the Colombian Constitutional Court in addressing the situation of...

Protecting the Displaced in Colombia: The Role of Municipal...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, previously Refugee Policy GroupAcción Social
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Colombia

The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, the Universidad de los Andes, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Acción Social jointly convened a seminar on the role of...

Learning from the urban transitional shelter response in Haiti
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Haiti

This handbook documents Catholic Relief Service's experience in planning and implementing its urban transitional shelter response in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The handbook highlights challenges...

Manual para la rehabilitacion de viviendas construidas en adobe y...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Colombian Association for Earthquake Engineering
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Colombia

Estos estudios han aportado valiosos conocimientos para la adecuada protección del patrimonio arquitectónico y cultural construido conestos materiales ancestrales, característicos en el territorio...

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