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Content Type: Resource
Date: Aug 2019
Location: Bangladesh

This study captures the experiences and learning from a pilot project at the heart of the Rohingya refugee emergency response in Bangladesh, and the delivery of shelter and settlement upgrades to...

Content Type: Resource
Date: Aug 2019
Location: Nepal

After a massive earthquake in 2015 led to large‑scale loss of life and livelihoods for communities in Nepal’s Gorkha District, one of the key impacts for people was damage to their livestock...

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Publisher(s): Sanitation Updates
Date: Aug 2019
Location: Iraq

In March 2019, Navjot Sawhney and Alex Hughes, both engineers and co-founders of the fledgling social enterprise The Washing Machine Project ...

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What does resilience mean to vulnerable communities? This question is crucial when designing initiatives to promote disaster risk reduction and resilience. Catholic Relief Services interviewed...

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Date: Sep 2019
Location: India

This project helped flood-affected communities increase their resilience and disaster preparedness by assisting them to develop their own plan of action: identifying the hazards they face,...

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This project was implemented in a remote and underserved area that experiences frequent natural disasters, including ongoing river erosion. The goal was to support communities to build resilient...

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Date: Sep 2019
Location: Indonesia

This project aimed at increasing people’s resilience to natural disasters in 10 remote, drought‑prone villages in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province. Farmers face dramatic changes in climate...

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Date: Sep 2019
Location: Pakistan, Eritrea, Haiti

This report begins with a discussion on why evidence matters, to inform and strengthen humanitarian response to emergencies. The report details why sex/ gender and age matter for evidenced based...

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Date: Sep 2019

"This report brings together the available evidence to review how International NGOs, NGOs, Disabled People Organizations and other stakeholders contributing in disability and ageing sector with...

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Publisher(s): UN-Habitat/AXA
Date: Sep 2019

This publication builds upon extensive experience in post-disaster housing recovery efforts from all over the world. UN-Habitat has been supporting local government, construction sector...

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