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Almost every year earthquake disasters occur in various areas in Indonesia and despite of the severe impact on the regional economy and development, it seems that relatively little is being done...
In response to Cyclone Indlala, Red Cross staff and volunteers as well as the local authorities and other partners mobilized themselves to provide food and non-food items, conduct water and...
This paper attempts to examine the problem and challenges of public housing delivery in Nigeria. It highlights the nature and dimension of Nigeria’s housing problems. The various government...
This paper discusses organisational initiatives for resettlement of rural communities that have lost their houses due to various natural calamities like river erosion, flood, cyclone etc, in...
˜IDP profiling' is the term used to describe various methods of data collection from and on IDP populations. The methods can range from aerial counts to a full census. Different profiling...
Learning from Earthquakes : : A field report on structural and geotechnical damages sustained during the 26 January 2001 Mag. 7. 9 Bhuj Earthquake in Western India. Mostly annotated photos showing...
In General considerations, gender and related concepts are defined, followed by a description of the social structures that generate gender in equality and how they are constructed. Those...
In 1997 (Mbiba 1997) , I argued that communal lands do not offer secure tenure for the people living on them, and that while this insecurity prevails, the inhabitants of communal areas in Zimbabwe...
This is one of six checklists developed by Swiss Solidarity in January 2007. The checklists are a compilation of lessons learned over the last 20 years and are intended to improve the quality of...
This is one of six checklists developed by Swiss Solidarity in January 2007. The checklists are a compilation of lessons learned over the last 20 years and are intended to improve the quality of...