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This sheet gives figures and information on the achievements and the challenges the members of the shelter and non-food-items cluster has been facing in Haiti. In addition, it give some...
This guide makes two core contributions to the broader humanitarian sector: 1) It presents an approach for organizing observable objects in satellite imagery in relationship to the categories of...
This thesis looks at the humanitarian industry’s environmental sustainability and possible ways to reduce its carbon footprint, with a focus on emergency shelter in post-disaster situations. The...
This manual has been prepared as a guide for the development and use of local materials, particularly soils, lime and pozzolans for construction in rural flood prone areas of Pakistan, where...
ROFI Transitional Shelter
This presentation covered topics including-1. Settlement options2. Land ownership3. Phases of response4. Scale of programme5. Self built and contractor models of construction6. Logistics and...
This handbook advocates for what the World Bank and several other agencies have defined as owner-driven reconstruction, which has proven to be the most empowering, dignified, sustainable, and cost...
This resource identifies the six transitional reconstruction options, and explores their advantages and disadvantages.