Disasters and Emergencies
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The Sphere Handbook Arabic
The Sphere Handbook presents a principled approach to quality and accountability in humanitarian response. It is a practical translation of Sphere’s core belief that all people affected by disaster or conflict have a right to life with dignity and the right to receive humanitarian assistance. The...
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The Sphere Handbook
The Sphere Handbook presents a principled approach to quality and accountability in humanitarian response. It is a practical translation of Sphere’s core belief that all people affected by disaster or conflict have a right to life with dignity and the right to receive humanitarian assistance. The...
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Minimum Economic Recovery Standards 3rd Edition Arabic
A major shift has taken place in the field of humanitarian assistance. This shift includes greater awareness of the key role markets play in assisting affected populations to recover from shocks. In parallel with emergency efforts to meet basic human needs for shelter, water, food, and health servic...
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Normas mínimas para la recuperación económica 3rd Edition
Se ha producido un cambio importante en el campo de la ayuda humanitaria. Este cambio incluye, entre otros aspectos, una mayor concienciación en lo que respecta al papel fundamental de los mercados a la hora de prestar asistencia a las poblaciones afectadas para recuperarse de las crisis. De forma s...
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Normes minimales pour le relèvement économique 3rd Edition
Le domaine de l’assistance humanitaire a pris un virage important. Ce virage comprend une plus grande prise de conscience du rôle clé que jouent les marchés pour aider les populations affectées à se relever après un choc. Parallèlement aux efforts des services d’urgence pour répondre aux besoins élé...
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Managing Humanitarian Innovation
The challenges facing humanitarian logistics are huge. Refugee camps present enormously challenging environments in which sudden spikes in demand, difficult to access locations, disruptions due to conflict or disasters, as well as normal supply chain problems are commonplace. This means that orders...
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Minimum Economic Recovery Standards 3rd Edition
A major shift has taken place in the field of humanitarian assistance. This shift includes greater awareness of the key role markets play in assisting affected populations to recover from shocks. In parallel with emergency efforts to meet basic human needs for shelter, water, food, and health servic...
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Managing Humanitarian Relief 2nd Edition
Armed conflicts, natural disasters and environmental degradation result in human misery, and the common response is to want to help. Responding effectively to humanitarian disasters is far from straightforward, however, and relief workers often find themselves in a world of uncoordinated, highly com...
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Adaptive Management for Resilient Communities
Short-term projects and linear management approaches are often unsuitable for achieving resilient development in the face of volatile complexity. Adaptive management combined with longer-term project funding has the potential to deliver more appropriate development outcomes. This will require develo...
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From Risk to Resilience
In 2011 Practical Action published From Vulnerability to Resilience: A Framework for Analysis and Action to Build Community Resilience. This was one of the first attempts by a development NGO to operationalize resilience and it provided project workers with a framework to apply the resilience concep...