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This background note addresses the cost effectiveness of investing in resilience when compared with approaches that rely exclusively on ex-post response and recovery, and the lack of funding...
This issue of the journal 'Humanitairan Exchange', has a special feature which focuses on the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel region of Africa, where aid agencies estimate that more...
To Improve the well-being of the producers and
users of bamboo and rattan within the context of a
sustainable bamboo and rattan resource base
A UNCRD (United Nations Centre for Regional Development) film which looks at the ability and ways in which communities in Nepal, India, and Vietnam can learn to live with earthquakes by altering...
CORE is a multi-stakeholder training for national level, made sustainable and scalable by franchising to national partners, funded initially by DFID and ECHO. In 2013, CCCM-CORE has been developed...
This manual presents both theoretical background on the topic of earthquakes and guidelines for designing new and strengthening existing buildings for earthquake resistance. Particularly relevant...
The Urban Housing Sector Profile is aimed at supporting the revision of the National Shelter Policy of 1996. It is meant to improve the understanding of the sector, to enable the Government of...
This study will aim to
counterbalance this trend in the literature and will explore the experiences of Pakistani
and Somali URs, two of the largest UR populations in Kathmandu, Nepal....
This is a short video created by USAID Nepal that provides a glimpse of Nepal Flood Recovery Program's extensive impacts in transforming the lives of rural Nepalese.
This is an Action Aid film on how community-based programmes reduce risk in practice in Nepal. The video shows practice drills simulating emergencies and testimonies of community, authorities and...