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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...
The project focused on strengthening the disaster risk reduction capacities and increasing the resilience of vulnerable communities in 27 villages by helping them to prepare for and respond to...
The magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Haiti on 12th January 2010 devastated large areas of the capital city of Port-Au-Prince and surrounding communes. Around 222,570 people were killed and a...
This guide builds on previous manuals produced by CRS and CAFOD, adding new sections on how to strengthen community leadership and participation mechanisms, and how to integrate climate change...
The earthquake in Pakistan affected some of the most remote and inaccessible rural mountain communities who live at elevations of up to 5,000 feet. This presented numerous logistical and...
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...
This presentation by Tom Corsellis from Shelter Centre was for the Swiss NGO Reconstruction Workshop, held in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 23, 2023. The presentation delves into building a...
In Gujarat, CRS’ resilient shelter project aimed to enhance local construction technology with the introduction of Compressed Stabilized Earth Block (CSEB) technology. This sustainable technology...
This document can also be found on the official website of the International Rescue Committee at https://www.rescue.org/...
Since South Sudan gained independence in 2011, fighting between government and opposition forces uprooted more than 1.8 million people from their homes. As of November 2018, about 1.07 million...