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The aim of this report is to assist agencies working in the tsunami crisis by highlighting seven generic lessons that have been learned from other natural disasters, specifically floods and...
This paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learned from relief responses to past earthquakes. The October 2005 South Asia earthquake presents unique challenges, particularly of scale and...
Summary of lessons from previous evaluations carried out in Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Balkans. Main sections include: Humanitarian assistance, post-conflict rehabilitation, protection, peace...
This is the background paper of the 26th ALNAP Meeting in Kuala Lumpur (16?17 November 2010). The paper explores the relationships between international humanitarian actors and national...
Disaster response in an urban environment presents a wide variety of challenges. Humanitarian organisations often have more experience of disaster response in rural settings, and local authorities...
This briefing paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learnt from evaluations of relief and recovery responses to past slow-onset disasters, particularly drought, and food and livelihoods...
This Collection is part of the 'Tsunami disaster channel', where after such a disaster, affected families will inevitably have to rebuild not only their homes but also their livelihoods. There is...
This evaluation is one of five thematic evaluations undertaken by the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC) on the international humanitarian response to the tsunami. The other four in the series...
This is a synthesis evaluation covering the international community's funding of the relief response to the tsunami of December 2004. 1 It is one of five similar thematic evaluations...
Kenya was the first country in the world to use mobile phones for cash transfers; through a service called M-PESA, developed by Safaricom Limited. Concern Worldwide has pioneered the use of M-PESA...