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 within the first year after a
Supporting Self-Recovery in practice This programme supported the ‘self-recovery’ of lives and homes after the typhoon hit, by providing guidance, equipment, cash grants and technical assistance. By using locally available materials and debris from destroyed houses they have helped families
It’s a pleasure to present the Self-recovery from disasters: an interdisciplinary perspective working paper. This paper is published by ODI (in collaboration with CARE UK, BGS and UCL) and presents the findings from the Promoting Safer Building pilot research project in
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
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
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
Promoting Safer-Building and Supporting Self-Recovery #SaferSelfRecovery On the 27th of January representatives from across the humanitarian shelter sector and academic research community met at CARE International UK for the first Promoting Safer Building project workshop. Objectives Further define the questions