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Shelter after disaster: Strategies for transitional settlement and reconstruction
Documents and publications
Publications
Tools and guidelines

This is the strategies for transitional settlement and reconstruction, offering governments, coordinators and implementers a framework for integrated shelter, settlement and reconstruction following natural disasters.

Department for International Development
Shelter Centre
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Community-driven disaster intervention Experiences of the Homeless People's Federation Philippines Incorporated
Documents and publications
Case Study

This paper describes the experiences of the Philippines Homeless People’s Federation in community-driven measures to avoid disasters, in disaster preparedness and in disaster response.

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Documents and publications

This report is specifically designed to review and document good practices and experiences of the Government and people of China in the recovery and reconstruction operations following the Wenchuan Earthquake.

China Earthquake Administration
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
International Recovery Platform
Documents and publications

This recovery status report focuses on the intensive recovery interventions of the international humanitarian community and the Government of Myanmar following the unprecedented damages and losses caused by Nargis. It addresses the need to give priority

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
International Recovery Platform
Myanmar - government
Documents and publications
Disaster Recovery Guidance

The purpose of this document is to create a cohesive documented body of knowledge for disaster recovery planners and policy makers, in the recognition that preventive measures are vital to reducing the more costly efforts of responding to disasters.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
International Recovery Platform
Documents and publications

This publication provides expert advice and global best practices on ten identified 'burning' post-disaster recovery and reconstruction issues, in a time-bound manner. It covers a number of key sectors including: building seismic safety assessment, environmental and social assessment, and helping women and children to recover and build resilient communities. It aims to support the Government of Haiti's decision-making on the recovery and reconstruction operations following the devastating Haiti Earthquake of January 2010.

World Bank, the
Haiti - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
Rebuilding Lives and Homes in Aceh and Nias, Indonesia
Documents and publications
Publications

This document presents the experience and lessons learned from the implementation of the Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Support Project (ETESP) housing program carried out by the Asian Development Bank in Indonesia.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Owner-Driven Housing Reconstruction Guidelines
Documents and publications
Disaster Recovery Guidance

The guidelines are for field practitioners planning and implementing housing reconstruction programmes. This includes members of shelter recovery/reconstruction operations such as programme managers, shelter delegates and construction delegates.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Documents and publications

This publication showcases the Lunawa Project approaches tp resettlement and housing/infrastructure reconstruction implemented in Sri Lanka. It intends to record the initiatives taken under the Lunawa Environmental Improvement & Community Development

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
Documents and publications

This assessment report of the 2008 earthquake in China is part of UNCRD's research project on community-based disaster prevention and housing earthquake strengthening projects. It reviews the recovery plan for urban and rural housing reconstruction, which

United Nations Centre for Regional Development