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Guidelines for Reducing Flood Losses
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Brazil, Honduras, Thailand

Guidelines developed over the course of three workshops:

Flood Forecasting and Disaster Response Workshop (Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 1999)
International Symposium on Flood...

Evaluation of Experience with Initiating Enabling Shelter Strategies
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Colombia, India, Nigeria, Thailand

This report uses the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 as the basis for describing "enabling" strategies and processes in the field of shelter provision and improvement. A...

Compendium Transitional learning spaces (TLS) Resilient design and...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan, Haiti, Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Nigeria, Thailand, Chile, Philippines, Portugal

Eleven case studies are included in the TLS 2013 that have been implemented in response to flooding, earthquake and conflict. This year’s case studies illustrate different types of child-friendly...

SAFE HAVEN: Sheltering Displaced Persons from Sexual and Gender-Based...
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Publisher(s): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR)University of California (BerkeleySchool of Law)
Date: Sep 2020
Location: Colombia, Haiti, Kenya, Thailand

This document was originally published on the official website of the University of California at: https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/.
This...

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...

Forest Fire Management Global Best Practices
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): India National Disaster Management Authority
Date: Sep 2023
Location: India, United States, Australia, Canada, Brazil, United Kingdom, Guatemala, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Guinea-Bissau, European Union

This report is a desktop review of best practices in forest fire management across the globe. It identifies and documents various best forest fire management practices in the world, along with...