Supporting self-recovery after disasters
October 2019
The majority of disaster affected communities self-recover.. Families and communities rebuild using their own resources with little or no support from outside agencies. Research shows that the number of shelters constructed by aid agencies...
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Technical Lecture Series: Let them eat cake: engineering risk & responsibility in repair Synopsis Dr Kate Crawford will talk about her quest – in research and enterprise – to understand how engineers are embroiled...
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We’ve added a new page to our blog on the Supporting Shelter Self-Recovery Evidence Synthesis A review of a major part of the existing knowledge that there is on supporting shelter self-recovery. If you want...
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Earlier this year Habitat for Humanity and University College London completed the first Systematic Review to have been undertaken in the shelter sector. If you are interested in finding out more do please download...
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This year, the Promoting Safer Building project was adopted by the Global Shelter Cluster. The Global Shelter Cluster The Global Shelter Cluster (GSC) is an Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) coordination mechanism that supports...
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With a multidisciplinary conference: 13th of July In July we held a Multidisciplinary Conference that sought to present the project field work methods and learning from post-typhoon interventions in the Philippines and post-earthquake interventions...
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From theory to practice The Nepal research case study took place from the 18th of April until the 01st of May 2017 in several communities within Dhading District, which was devastated by the earthquakes...
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Brief update on the research The Promoting Safer Building Programme is a multidisciplinary research study being carried out by an alliance between CARE International UK (CARE UK), Overseas Development Institute (ODI), University College London-EPICentre...
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Global Challenges Research Fund Translations Award funding announced for a new project researching how best to support ‘Self-Recovery’ in the Humanitarian Shelter Response.
This project, led by the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes and CARE International UK and in partnership with Catholic Relief Services, Habitat for Humanity, CRAterre and the British Geological Survey, builds on previous research focused on understanding how housing self-recovery works to develop guidance and tools, which will help operational agencies support the process