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Reconstruction after Disaster
ACTED & DFID in Northern Sindh 2011 - 2012
Building Community Resilience
Every year, natural events, such as earthquakes, floods, storms, heatwaves and droughts cause huge humanitarian and economic damage around the world. Although we are now better able to identify...
In July and August 2010, torrential rains triggered widespread flooding in Pakistan affecting over 18 million people, around one-tenth of the country’s population. 29 districts were severely...
A presentation on the UNHCR 3-years shelter programme in Afghanistan, intended to facilitate the gradual and voluntary return of displaced Afghans (refugees and IDP's) to their community in...
The speaker introduced the session by asking participants to consider a series of questions for discussion on the theme 'transition from emergency response to the longer term reconstruction'. He...
Brian Kelly, IOM and Tom Corsellis, Shelter Centre, co-chaired the session discussing a proposal to invite government reconstruction agencies for a one day workshop in Geneva in November 2007. A...
This was a round table discussion on reconstruction, introducing a series of thematic presentations by different participants. The subjects raised included problems caused by the use of vague...
The speaker described UN-Habitat's programme for reconstruction in Darfur in preparation for the return of the displaced population. The speaker highlighted the threat of regional environmental...
Elisabeth Babister introduced the discussion by asking a series of questions on the subject of reconstruction. The discussion that followed covered funding policies of IFIs, proposals for...
Issam Mahmoud Miqdadi, UNRWA, gave a presentation on assessing post-conflict building damage and the various types of damage a building might sustain. He also discussed considerations for knocking...