Delivering Early Warning Systems to the Poorest

Jodi Sugden

Floods are the most common cause of weather-related disasters globally, causing billions of dollars’ worth of damage and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. Flood early warning systems can significantly reduce the devastating impacts of floods on lives and livelihoods for the poorest and mos...

Hygiene Evaluation Procedures

Astier M. Almedom, Ursula Blumenthal, Lenore Manderson

This handbook provides practical guidelines for evaluating water and sanitation related hygiene practices for the purposes of project planning, monitoring or impact assessment. The main focus, therefore, is on the practical concerns of field personnel working in water supply, sanitation, and health...

Hygiene Evaluation Procedures

Astier M. Almedom, Ursula Blumenthal, Lenore Manderson

This handbook provides practical guidelines for evaluating water and sanitation related hygiene practices for the purposes of project planning, monitoring or impact assessment. The main focus, therefore, is on the practical concerns of field personnel working in water supply, sanitation, and health...

Humanitarian Needs Assessment

Paul Currion

What assistance do disaster-affected communities need? This book guides humanitarian field staff in answering this vital question during the early days and weeks following a disaster, when timely and competent assessment is crucial for enabling informed decision making. Needs assessment is essential...

Still Standing?

Theo Schilderman, Eleanor Parker

Huge levels of aid are spent on reconstructing housing after disasters. Have these houses withstood the test of time and hazard? Just as important from the point of view of their owners, has the reconstruction process played a part in restoring their livelihoods and social networks? Unfortunately, a...

Disaster Risk Management and Reconstruction in Latin America

Bárbara Montoro, Pedro Ferradas

Earthquakes cause devastation, and it is those who are already vulnerable who suffer most from from the repeated destruction of their homes. How can we enable those in disaster-prone areas to both plan for, and recover, in the wake of disasters? This practical manual offers an up-to-date resource co...

Contribution au changement

Roger Few, Daniel McAvoy, Marcela Tarazona, Vivien Margaret Walden

Alors que le nombre de personnes touchées par des catastrophes augmente, il en va de même pour les attentes placées dans les organisations humanitaires par les bailleurs de fonds, le public et les populations touchées. Les organisations doivent à présent fournir des preuves de l’impact de leurs inte...

Contribution to Change

Roger Few, Daniel McAvoy, Marcela Tarazona, Vivien Margaret Walden

As the number of people affected by disasters has risen, so have the expectations placed on humanitarian agencies by donors, the public and the affected populations themselves. Agencies must now provide evidence of impact of their interventions. But applying conventional evaluation methods can pose...

Una contribución al cambio

Roger Few, Daniel McAvoy, Marcela Tarazona, Vivien Margaret Walden

El número de personas afectadas por desastres va en aumento, y con él las expectativas que los donantes, el público general y las poblaciones afectadas tienen puestas en las organizaciones humanitarias. Las organizaciones deben ahora presentar pruebas del impacto de sus intervenciones, pero la aplic...

Preparation of Risk Maps

This document looks at risk map usage in the emergency preparedness project in Peru, recognising that more comprehensive risk-reduction strategies are constantly emerging.