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Mr. Tom Corsellis, Executive Secretary of the Shelter Centre, presented a Proposal for a Common Humanitarian Technical Library to provide a single 'memory' base,...
This volume distills what is known about environmental health during an emergency or disaster. It draws on results from the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, and on experience...
This study outlines ways in which private companies can contribute to disaster prevention and response. It provides useful insights into factors that motivate corporations to be involved. It has...
A simple definition of a warehouse is: ‘A warehouse is a planned space for the storage and handling of goods and material.’ (...
Markets are a crucial component of how people survive. Understanding how markets are functioning and disrupted in emergencies is critical to any analysis of hunger, and to food and livelihood...
To date, humanitarian market analysis has mainly been used in post rapid onset emergency contexts. With Pre-Crisis Market and Analysis (PCMA), market analysis takes place before ...
This gives an overview on policies, documentation, opportunities and the Emergency Items Catalogue.
The size of warehouse required for an operation is determined by the maximum quantity of supplies, in tonnage and volume, that will be stored there at any one time. This quantity is determined by...
In an ideal world, the space required for ‘shipping’, in other words for the unloading of stock from incoming transport and the subsequent loading of the outbound transport, would be calculated...
This document can also be found on the official website of Oxfam, at: https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk.
The evidence synthesis...