Collection of cases from post-disaster shelter projects from recent years, including a selection from the last 40 years taken from the CUNY archives. (Warning: MASSIVELY LARGE FILE)
Focusing on settlement and shelter, this paper examines 4 areas: (i) safety, security, and livelihoods; (ii) how post-disaster settlement and shelter could have an improved connection with permanent housing and communities; (iii) fairness and equity; and (iv) connecting relief and development by tackling root causes of vulnerability.
Report highlighting 'inherent centrality of people from communities at risk as the primary stakeholders of all disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives'.
Article outlining experience of reconstruction agencies in the Tsunami recovery in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
'Web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government, civil society and the victims themselves.'
Overivew of Microsoft's preliminary efforts to work "with local and international agencies contributing financial support, technical assistance, and volunteer resources to the relief and recovery efforts".
