Skip to main content

PreventionWeb

PreventionWeb

Knowledge

  • Global Assessment Report (GAR)
  • PreventionWeb

Special Events

  • Global Platform
  • International Day for Disaster Reduction
  • World Tsunami Awareness Day

Tools

  • Sendai Framework Monitor
  • Voluntary Commitments

UNDRR

irp_logo

IRP Logo

IRP - Main Navigation

  • About
    • Overview
    • Vision, Mision, Goals
    • Steering Commitee
    • IRP Secretariat
    • Contact us
  • Learn From Experience
    • Overview
    • Disasters
    • Countries
  • Build Back Better
    • Overview
    • Guidance for Disaster Recovery
    • Post-Disaster Needs Assessments
      • About PDNA
      • Post-Disaster Needs Assesments (PDNA)
      • Covid-19 Recovery Needs Assesment (CRNA)
    • Disaster Recovery Framework
    • Themes in Recovery
    • IRP Steering Committee Organizations
    • All Recovery Resources
    • Recovery Help Desk
  • News & events
    • Overview
    • News & Events
    • International Recovery Forum
    • Training
    • IRP Herald
  • 日本語

Menu

 

IRP - Main Navigation
  • About
    • Overview
    • Vision, Mision, Goals
    • Steering Commitee
    • IRP Secretariat
    • Contact us
  • Learn From Experience
    • Overview
    • Disasters
    • Countries
  • Build Back Better
    • Overview
    • Guidance for Disaster Recovery
    • Post-Disaster Needs Assessments
      • About PDNA
      • Post-Disaster Needs Assesments (PDNA)
      • Covid-19 Recovery Needs Assesment (CRNA)
    • Disaster Recovery Framework
    • Themes in Recovery
    • IRP Steering Committee Organizations
    • All Recovery Resources
    • Recovery Help Desk
  • News & events
    • Overview
    • News & Events
    • International Recovery Forum
    • Training
    • IRP Herald
  • 日本語
  1. Documents and publications

Humanitarian Exchange: Using participatory tools to assess remittances in disasters


Documents and publications
Author(s)
Le De, Loic; Gaillard, J. C.; Friesen, Wardlow
Source
Humanitarian Practice Network
Publication Year
2015
Number of pages
pp. 30-33

This issue of Humanitarian Exchange, co-edited with Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) Research Fellow Eva Svoboda, focuses on the crisis in Iraq. The article featured here is on "Using participatory tools to assess remittances in disaster". In many low-income countries, remittances help to sustain people’s livelihoods and reduce their vulnerability to disasters. However, most studies on this topic are short-term and rely on econometric methods and analysis.

Research suggests that aid agencies are aware of the importance of remittances in disasters, but rarely consider them within their relief actions and recovery programmes since their understanding of such mechanisms is generally very limited. Drawing on fieldwork in Samoa, this article concludes that participatory methods, despite some limitations and challenges, contribute to a better understanding of the complexity of remittances and their importance in people’s livelihoods following a disaster.

Share this
recovery.preventionweb.net/quick/50455 Copy to clipboard
Also featured on

PreventionWeb

Download
Download file
Related information
Related links
Remittances for disaster risk management: Perspectives from Pacific Island migrants living in New Zealand
Remittances and disaster: policy implications for disaster risk management
Natural disasters and remittances: exploring the linkages between poverty, gender, and disaster vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS
Keywords
Themes
Recovery
Social Impacts & Social Resilience
Country & Region
Samoa

Stay in touch

Sign up for UNDRR updates

UNDRR Tools

  • Making Cities Resilient
  • PreventionWeb
  • Sendai Framework Monitor
  • Voluntary Commitments

Contact us

Sendai Framework

© UNDRR

Footer

  • Fraud Alert

Sustainable Development Goals Logo