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Urban Livelihoods Recovery, Lessons from Port-au-Prince, Haiti

The earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010 led to the loss of more than 220,000 lives, over 310,000 injuries and extensive damage to buildings and infrastructure. Taking the British Red Cross recovery programme as a case study, this report presents a series of lessons on good practice in urban livelihoods recovery. The report, […]

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Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Good Practice (Mercy Corps)

Based on its own learning, continual community feed-back, and a real-time evaluation during the September 2008 flood in the Far-Western Development Region of Nepal, Mercy Corps has identified 10 areas of good practice for community-based disaster risk reduction which are documented in this report. Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Good Practice http://www.preventionweb.net/files/10479_10479CommunityBasedDRRGoodPracticeR.pdf

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