Normas mínimas para la recuperación económica 3rd Edition

The SEEP Network

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...

Normes minimales pour le relèvement économique 3rd Edition

The SEEP Network

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...

Managing Humanitarian Innovation

Eric James, Abigail Taylor

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...

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...

Improving Understanding of Flooding and Resilience

Rivers sourced from the Himalaya irrigate the Indo-Gangetic Plain via major river networks that support approximately 10% of the global population and their livelihoods. However, many of these rivers are also the source of devastating floods. This brief captures the collaboration between an interdis...

Flood Adaptive Rice Cultivation Practice

Flash flood due to intensive rainfall and river overflow damages rice crop every year in flood plains of Nepal and other countries with similar topography.

Managing Humanitarian Relief 2nd Edition

Eric James

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...

Flood Early Warning System in Practice: Experiences of Nepal

Flood Early Warning System (EWS) is one of the key programmes implemented by Practical Action in Nepal since 2002. We have realised, there is a need of EWS in South Asia regional scale as the disasters are not limited within the political boundary.

From Risk to Resilience

Colin McQuistan

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...

Adaptive Management for Resilient Communities

Jodi Sugden

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...