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Responding to urban disasters: Learning from previous relief and recovery operations (ALNAP, 2012)

This 2012 ALNAP paper on urban lessons was written by David Sanderson, Paul Knox-Clarke and Leah Campbell and builds off a prior 2009 study written by Ian O’Donnell, Kristin Smart and Ben Ramalingam. It offers lessons pertaining to effective design and implementation of urban-response programs. It was written to serve as a practical field resource for international disaster management professionals, […]

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Community Engagement and Accountability

Community engagement is essential to effective disaster preparedness and response efforts. Evidence shows that accounting for local knowledge, practices, and contexts helps reduce disaster risks and strength resilience. True collaboration between crisis-affected communities, humanitarian organizations and, where possible, within and between communities enables affected people to meet their needs, address their vulnerabilities and build on

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Responding to urban disasters: Learning from previous relief and recovery operations (ALNAP, 2012)