Promoting Safer Building

Supporting self-recovery after disasters

Menu

  • Home
  • About
  • Projects
  • Who we are
  • Blog
  • Contact Us

shelter

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

Humanitarian Evidence Programme – Update!

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

Luisa Miranda Morel November 20, 2017December 4, 2017 Our Network Read more

Humanitarian Evidence Programme – Update!

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 the document or attend the upcoming

Luisa Miranda Morel October 10, 2017November 20, 2017 Project 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

PSB at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR)

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:

Luisa Miranda Morel May 31, 2017June 20, 2017 Our Network, Outputs of the Project Read more

Self-Recovery in the Philippines: Reflections on our research

Self-Recovery in the Philippines: Reflections on our research

From research to practice The project’s Philippines case study took place from the 4th until the 18th of March 2017 in several communities in the Philippines that were devastated by Typhoons Haiyan (2013) and Haima (2016). In order to reflect

Luisa Miranda Morel April 7, 2017July 18, 2017 Case Studies Read more

Archives

  • May 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • January 2017
  • October 2016

Meta

  • Log in
Copyright © 2023 Promoting Safer Building. Powered by WordPress. Theme: Spacious by ThemeGrill.
  • Contact Us