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Development of Poor Urban Communities Sector Project (DPUCSP), a pro-poor set of investments in secure tenure, housing, and livelihood support.
In 2014, HelpAge USA invited the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program and the American Association for the Advancement Science (AAAS) to collaborate on an investigation of the...
This document can also be found on the official website of the World Wildlife Fund: https://wwf.panda.org/. This report highlights the key ways plastic gets...
The majority of housing in cyclone-prone zones is non-engineered thatched construction. These structures have virtually no lateral load resistance mechanism. They can rarely survive even a...
This report examines the situation of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against refugees and internally dis-placed persons (IDPs) in eastern Chad, and responses of the MINURCAT and other UN...
The aim of this paper is to examine the usefulness of formal, quantitative data collection techniques for relief operations, using a survey from northern Iraq as a case study. 'Formal'...
There is now substantive cumulative evidence that trade embargoes cause severe civilian hardship and profound social and economic dislocation. Their impact goes beyond humanitarian crisis to...
Discusses the building construction found in the earthquake affected area in Northen Pakistan and the reasons and causes for large scale destruction to the buildings and infrastructure. Suggestes...
This housing report looks at housing typologies in India, with a focus on the traditional Naga type house.
The housing type is most common throughout the Northeast India which lies in the...
This Housing report looks at housing typologies in India, with a focus on rural mud houses with a pitched roof.
This is a typical rural construction found throughout India, except in the...