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This short presentation shared by David Sacca and Vidar Glette introduces the manual about accessibility and describes the conditions of the Haitians with disabilities...
This presentation, given by Charles Setchell, USAID/OFDA, outlines the lessons learned and lessons still being learned in shelter and settlement following natural disasters.
The speaker presented an overview of the work undertaken by the Humanitarian Response Review (HRR) and the Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Emergency Shelter Working Group including:
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In spring 2013, after weeks of rain, whole areas of southern, eastern and northern Germany were beset by catastrophic floods. Settlements vanished in the floods up to the roofs of the houses, tens...
Carolyn Baer, Senior SRH Technical Advisor for Emergencies, is telling the story of her most recent trip to Pakistan for SRH integration into Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
PROSPER-India is a three-year intervention that seeks to consolidate and upscale achievements of "Applying Bihar Recommendations: Building State-Level Emergency Response Capacity" program...
Einar Bjorgo, UNITAR-UNOSAT presented the geographic information system and satellite imagery tools UNOSAT use to map disasters. These images are used to assist field assessment, to help determine...
Karen Walker introduced how to deal with existing asbestos-containing materials in disaster and post-disaster settings where no specialist back-up is available and how to break the cycle and avoid...
Emergency Relief & Early Recovery
Andrew Hartley of Maplecroft demonstrated how the mapping of hazards and vulnerability of populations can inform predictions of future natural disasters.