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 in the repair of dwellings. She
Humanitarian Evidence Programme – Update!
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 to know more, make sure you
PSB as a Shelter Cluster Working Group
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 people affected by natural disasters and
Marking the end of the PSB pilot project and an opening for its new phase…
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 in Nepal and host a number
Self-Recovery in Nepal: Reflecting with practitioners
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 of 2015. Building on the success
Presenting at i-Rec, Toronto, Canada
8th i-Rec conference A snapshot of the Promoting Safer Building project as it was presented at the i-Rec Conference in Canada earlier this month. The main goal of i-Rec conferences is to contribute to disaster reconstruction and recovery knowledge and
PSB at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR)
Last week our team presented at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) conference in Cancun, Mexico. IGNITE Our IGNITE presentation was given by Santosh Sharma from CARE Nepal on the subject of Promoting safer self-recovery after a disaster Background: