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Resilience that protects

Knowledge & Expertise

Report (30 MB)

Gender Transformative Early Warning Systems

Early warning systems build community resilience to disasters, with the potential to save lives and livelihoods. Women a...

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Report (10 MB)

Missing Voices: Experiences of Marginalized Gender Groups in Disaster in Nepal and Peru

This report documents first person experiences of flood, disaster risk and early warning of vulnerable and marginalised ...

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Report (2 MB)

Practical Action and Early Warning Systems

Early warning provides an opportunity for people to take action to save lives and livelihoods, reducing the impacts of r...

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Assessing and addressing-climate induced loss and damage in Bangladesh

This working paper is based on a study carried out to improve understanding of, and identify actions to address, climate...

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Policy Brief (723 kB)

Gender Transformative Early Warning Systems Policy Brief

Early warning systems (EWS) build community resilience to disasters, with the potential to save lives and livelihoods. W...

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Gender Transformative Early Warning Systems: Nepal

Early warning systems (EWS) that do not explicitly consider gender are likely to increasethe marginalization or vulnerab...

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Gender Transformative Early Warning Systems: Peru

Early warning systems that do not explicitly consider gender are likely to increase themarginalization or vulnerability ...

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Publications

Building with Lime Stabilized Soil

Stafford Holmes, Bee Rowan

What is the key to delivering housing that will protect people across the world from effects of climate change and extreme weather? Durable, ecological locally available building materials! This new practical, detailed guide is a source of inspiration and empowerment.

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Constructing Low-rise Confined Masonry Buildings: A guide for builders and architects

Tom Schacher, Tim Hart

This is one of our very best sellers, and has been downloaded nearly 27,000 times!! It’s a vital resource for a variety of users interested in promoting and practicing confined-masonry construction in earthquake-prone regions of the world.

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Bridging the WASH Humanitarian-development Divide: Building a sustainable reality

Marielle Snel, Nikolas Sorensen

Humanitarian crises are growing in length and complexity due to external destabilising forces that include the impacts of climate change and ongoing geo-political instabilities. People affected should not have to rely on unsustainable humanitarian aid. Instead, humanitarian and development WASH professionals must work together with long term sustainable WASH goals in mind, so that communities can thrive and grow.

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Toward Resilience: A guide to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrett and Amy Hilleboe (2013)

A practical guidance on how to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into the program cycle and adapt activities to a range of contexts and development and humanitarian sectors.

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