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Documents and publications

This study shifts attention beyond estimating building damage as the main source of information after an earthquake by introducing an approach to rapidly identify the obstacles that lead to the lack of household recovery progress. 

Springer Nature
Post-Earthquake Rapid Needs Assessment: WASH & Shelter
Documents and publications
Publications

This field assessment objective was to assess the WASH & Shelter needs due to the earthquake disaster.

Takaful Alsham
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Documents and publications
Tools and guidelines

The purpose of the following Post-Disaster Building Assessment Guidelines for Communities is to support local authorities in the development and operation of their own PDBA programs.

BC Housing
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Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments
Publications

The purpose of this report is to analyze the impact of the northeastern floods of 2022 in Bangladesh on lives and livelihoods to provide strategic guidance on housing recovery and reconstruction using Build Back Better principles.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Cyclone resistant housing in Fiji: The forgotten features of traditional housing
Documents and publications
Publications

This study investigate cyclone-resistant features of traditional houses in Navala Village, which withstood 2016 Cyclone Winston. It shows the resilience benefits of traditional methods, materials and designs, suggesting adoption into current practices.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Public Action Plan for Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR)
Documents and publications
Publications

Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Action Plan describes how the state will spend the $422 million of federal funding to support recovery from the 2020 Labor Day Fires.

State of Oregon, the
WRC5 Knowledge Report
Documents and publications
Publications

This knowledge report highlights the key lessons and recommendations emerging from the discussions during the 15 sessions of the 5th World Reconstruction Conference.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
World Bank, the
International Recovery Platform
IRP Herald Volume 34
Documents and publications
IRP Herald

IRP Herald Volume 34 is the knowledge report for the IRP-supported technical sessions at the World Reconstruction Conference 5.

International Recovery Platform
In the shadow of the lingering Mt. Pinatubo disaster
Documents and publications

This book shares the findings of study focusing on experience of Concepcion set against backdrop of lingering Mt. Pinatubo disaster in Region III to highlight opportunities and problems which may also exist in other municipalities similarly afflicted.

Resettlers in Pampanga Are they finally settled
Documents and publications
Publications

The study is an assessment of the past and present conditions of the lowland and upland Mount Pinatubo victims presently residing in the nineteen (19) resettlement sites in Pampanga, Philippines.

University of the Philippines