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This study evaluates cases where self-built housing is applied by NGO's as a strategy for post-disaster recovery of low-income groups and indicates opportunities for further research.
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...
How can relief and development programs promote resilience in regions that experience recurrent crises? The six case studies in this document describe some of the ways that CRS has responded to...
This manual describes how to help communities implement disaster risk reduction activities. It was written for development workers and community-based organizations in the Horn of Africa, but...
The project focused on strengthening the disaster risk reduction capacities and increasing the resilience of vulnerable communities in 27 villages by helping them to prepare for and respond to...
This project was implemented in a remote and underserved area that experiences frequent natural disasters, including ongoing river erosion. The goal was to support communities to build resilient...
Ageways 66 looks at why older people's needs and capacities are overlooked in emergencies, with practical methods to ensure their inclusion. Also, how communities can protect themselves from...
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is committed to spread knowledge and good practices to contribute in capacity building through sharing lessons learned, case studies and guides developed from...
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...