Shelter / Housing

This case study is Catholic Relief Services' recovery program for Malawi floods and rains that occurred in 2015.

The guidance outlines a framework for supporting disaster-affected communities in shelter self-recovery, emphasizing a people-led approach and offering practical advice for implementing flexible, community-driven recovery programs.

The paper is part of a series of policy papers developed as part of the Urban Recovery Framework (URF), which explores conditions and recovery options for Syria.

This report culminates months of data gathering, strategy development, recovery priorities and potential strategies and the results of various community-level damage assessments in the aftermath of the Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

The Joint Communique sets out the agreements reached at the conclusion of the 5th Edition of the World Reconstruction Conference on 23-25 May 2022 in Bali, Indonesia.

This is the Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation report on the January 15 eruption, providing estimated costs of the physical damages caused by the volcanic eruption and tsunami.

Through a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the housing damage caused by the 2017 hurricanes, the authors make informed recovery recommendations for policymakers so they can repair and rebuild safe and affordable housing in Puerto Rico.

This contributing paper examines the interplay between official adaptive social protection (ASP) and grassroots efforts based on a case study of the rural reconstruction and recovery that took place after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China.

This document is an assessment of the recovery capacity of Grenada's housing sector conducted by GFDRR.

This paper assesses post-disaster shelter recovery policy frameworks in the Philippines by building a responsive system to support resilient and equitable recovery. Every year, shelter in the Philippines is being lost to climate-related events.