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In July and August 2010, torrential rains triggered widespread flooding in Pakistan affecting over 18 million people, around one-tenth of the country’s population. 29 districts were severely...
Urdu language flyer describing DRR measures in Shelter Construction
شیلٹر تعمیر میں ڈیزاسٹر رسک کمی کے اقدامات
More than three years into the Syrian conflict which has led to a protracted humanitarian crisis with regional dimensions, over 2.8 million people have sought safety and protection in...
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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The speaker described the role of early recovery. The speaker stressed the need to start early recovery in parallel with relief operations, presenting them as complementary ways of assisting a...
The speaker presented an overview of the United Nations humanitarian response system, followed by an overview of the Inter Agency Standing Committee cluster initiative. Ghassem Fardanesh described...
The speakers spoke about the importance of environmental assessments as part of any settlement strategy. They noted that any building programme, or indeed any change of land use, will impact the...
The chairman of the discussion presented a `toolbox` of items to be developed as part of the Emergency Shelter Cluster, useful in support of field implementation.
The subsequent discussion...
The speaker described the work of the UNJLC in Darfur coordinating the NFI/Emergency Shelter sector. In 2007 the UNJLC became fully responsible for sector coordination. Described was how the NFI...
The speaker requested feedback regarding both the coordination toolkit under development and data collection and tracking regarding NFI distributions.
Feeding back to the plenary, Malcolm...