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Évaluation D’impact Participative Guide à Destination Des Praticiens

Le Centre international Feinstein développe  et adapte des approches participatives visant à  mesurer l’impact des interventions relatives aux  moyens de subsistance depuis le début des années 1990. Mettant cette expérience à profit, ce guide  est destiné à fournir aux praticiens un vaste cadre  de référence pour réaliser des Évaluations  d’impact participatives (ÉIP) au niveau des […]

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Guidance for Improved Case Studies

As part of a project to enrich and advance the library of case studies showing good practices in disaster preparedness and disaster risk reduction that are available to practitioners worldwide, the GDPC supported the development of a guidance tool on how to best construct and capture case studies that define the challenges facing disaster preparedness

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Cement Trust

An NGO and consortium of cement producers that works to improve supply chain management for cement production. is looking to help builders reach a goal of 3,000 PSI cement rather than the 1,200 PSI cement that can typically be achieved with hand-mixing with a shovel. Cement Trust website, Interview with Bruce Christensen, general manager of

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Innovative Land Tenure in the Philippines: Challenges, Approaches and Institutionalization

Given the size of the urban poor population, a major challenge confronting development agencies, policymakers and social actors concerned with addressing poverty is how to provide better access to secure tenure and housing. tools and strategies to increase the poor’s access to secure land and housing tenure need to be devised. the overall aim of this study is to contribute to the

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Characteristics of a Safe and Resilient Community

This research report draws on the experience of the TRP CBDRR programmes and current literature in order to identify the ‘characteristics of safe and resilientcommunities; to understand how these characteristics changed over time and howRCRC interventions have contributed to this change’.It is intended that the characteristics arising from this research will be used in the design, monitoring

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The Minimum Standards for local climate‐smart disaster risk reduction

Many national climate change adaptation plans consider the need to plan over various timescales and acknowledge the essential role of local communities in addressing the changing risks. The Minimum Standards for local climate‐smart disaster risk reduction were developed as a practical checklist to help local community leaders and DRR practitioners ensure their risk reduction efforts are climate‐smart and contribute to

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Why Games?

Games encourage empowered action and they generate shared experiences and discussions that are truly participatory. For humanitarian organizations and local volunteers it is an active learning experience; a playful dialogue about situated action rather than an abstract discussion or exercise.Despite their usefulness, many people view games as a child’s pastime, as a medium that is not serious, and is

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Engaging the Community: Volunteerism and Disaster Managment in Nepal

A powerpoint presentation by Nepal Red Cross on tools to use for managing volunteers and engaging community. Lessons learnt and recommendations are also outlined.  Engaging the Community: Volunteerism and Disaster Managment in Nepal https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDcQFjAA&url=http%3A//www.preventionweb.net/files/globalplatform/entry_presentation~engagingcommunitiesmr.umeshdhakal.ppt&ei=SaywUtrSINHKsQTX3oHQDA&usg=AFQjCNGJeoGWrziET8qJdHWTY5lC5Ng4Kw&sig2=RLEB2WZm6j9JXjPhCGlecg&bvm=bv.57967247%2Cd.cWc

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