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This case study examines the role of the affected state in humanitarian action. The following sections of this report provide a brief overview of the disaster itself and place this within the...
This paper examines the challenges facing the protracted crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo as they relate to the international response in eastern DRC, with a particular focus on the...
This publication provides frameworks around how to conceptualise risk. It also highlights tools and general best practice for undertaking risk assessment and disaster risk reduction.
This edition of Humanitarian
Exchange features articles on
the response to the earthquake
in Pakistan on 8
October 2005, documenting
practical lessons and key
...
A background paper prepared for the workshop on Human Rights and Humanitarian Action convened by the IASC Sub-Working Group and co-hosted by UNICEF, the UN High Commission for Human Rights and...
This report presents the findings of research into the risks to delivery of WASH results posed by climate change in Africa, drawing on rapid case study reviews of WASH programming in Malawi,...
This study aims to review and reflect on the existing ‘tools’ for adapting to, and managing the risk of, climate variability and change on water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services,...
Humanitarian and disaster risk management practitioners are becoming increasingly interested in the potential for Forecast-based early action’ (FbA) to reduce the impact of shocks on vulnerable...