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PSB2 What we are doing and where we are going with the research…

PSB2 What we are doing and where we are going with the research…

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

Luisa Miranda Morel May 9, 2018May 9, 2018 Outputs of the Project, Project Read more

2017 World Habitat Awards announced: Post-Haiyan Self-Recovery Housing Programme, Philippines

2017 World Habitat Awards announced:  Post-Haiyan Self-Recovery Housing Programme, Philippines

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

Luisa Miranda Morel December 12, 2017 Outputs of the Project Read more

Supporting Self-Recovery: An interdisciplinary perspective

Supporting Self-Recovery: An interdisciplinary perspective

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

Luisa Miranda Morel December 4, 2017 Outputs of the Project Read more

Let them eat cake!

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

Luisa Miranda Morel November 24, 2017November 24, 2017 Our Network Read more

PSB as a Shelter Cluster Working Group

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

Luisa Miranda Morel August 29, 2017August 29, 2017 Our Network Read more

Marking the end of the PSB pilot project and an opening for its new phase…

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

Luisa Miranda Morel August 24, 2017November 20, 2017 Our Network, Outputs of the Project Read more

First project workshop 27th January 2017

First project workshop 27th January 2017

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

Tom Newby January 13, 2017July 18, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

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