Livelihoods, conflict and disasters
Over the past two decades humanitarian response to conflict and disasters has increasingly recognised the importance of early recovery, and better links between relief and development activities. Livelihoods approaches are now being used by many organisations for disaster risk reduction and early recovery. More…
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- Learning the Lessons? Assessing the response to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel to build resilience for the future
- Oxfam, 2013
- In 2012, the Sahel region of West and Central Africa was once again hit by a severe food crisis, affecting over 18 million people at its peak. At the start of 2012, when the crisis began to unfold, many governments, donors and aid age...
- Development of sustainable enterprise among internally displaced persons
- Abdelnour S.; Badri B.; Jack A. / York University, Canada, 2008
- As humanitarian, political and development challenges continue to mount, organisations and communities within Sudan must recognise, utilise and strengthen existing capacities for their own development. Recognizing the complexity of th...
- Technology-based non structural measures for managing floods
- A.B. Shrestha / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, 2008
- Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. They tend to carry with them much higher amounts of debris which can caus...
- Community-based approaches to flash flood risk management
- A.B. Shrestha; S.H. Shah; R. Karim / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, 2008
- Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. Vulnerable groups, including people with disabilities, the poor, women an...
- Disaster risk reduction: gender and livelihoods
- A. Giuliani (ed); R. Wenger (ed); S. Wymann von Dach (ed) / InfoResources, 2009
- This paper highlights gender as a very important factor in determining vulnerability in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). The degree of vulnerability to disaster is determined by social variables like gender, age, health status...
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