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Fires in refugee and displaced persons settlements: the current...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): U.S Department of Health and Human Services
Date: Oct 2018
Location: Worldwide

This resource aims to describe the burden of fires in displaced persons settlements and identify interventions/innovations that might address gaps in current humanitarian guidelines. The resource...

Improved Methods for Fire Risk Assessment in Low-Income and Informal...
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Date: Oct 2018
Location: Worldwide

Fire-related injuries are strongly associated with low-income and informal/temporary settlements, which are growing rapidly in an urbanising world. Fire policy and mitigation strategies in poorer...

Adopting a Market-based Approach to Boost Energy Access in Displaced...
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): MEI
Date: Jan 2020
Location: Global

• Development of long-term energy solutions in displacement settings tends to be perceived as investment that falls outside the remit of emergency responses. In addition, when emergency energy...

Innovative Financing for Humanitarian Energy Interventions
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): MEI
Date: Jan 2020
Location: Global

A significant increase in funding is required to ensure that displaced people are included in efforts to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, which aims to ‘ensure access to affordable,...

Infrastructure Management Contracts: Improving Energy Asset...
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): MEI
Date: Jan 2020
Location: Global

Building and maintaining electricity infrastructure to power offices, businesses, households and other operations in displacement settings is difficult. It is especially challenging for the Office...

A Framework for Fire Safety in Informal Settlements
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): ARUP
Date: Oct 2018
Location: Global - Multiple countries

The impacts of fire are beginning to be recognised as a significant risk in informal settlements, but are still often overshadowed by the focus on formal built settlements. This Framework has been...

Improving Social Protection for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers...
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): UN - International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
Date: May 2023
Location: Egypt

This report analyses noteworthy practices adopted by countries around the globe to expand the access to social protection (SP) systems for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, aiming to...