01 Jul 2015
Drawing on the rights-based approach laid out in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons (IASC Framework) and reflected in many of the Philippines’ own domestic standards, this report anal...
Tags: Report, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone
30 Sep 2013
“Oxfam’s portfolio of urban disaster risk reduction projects in the Caribbean region are at the forefront of current practice. They offer an opportunity to review outputs, practice and lessons learned for Oxfam and the wider DRR community. Th...
Tags: Report, Communication As Aid, Urban Infrastructure, Urban Risk Reduction
23 Mar 2015
This study reflects an awareness of the need to see disasters as primarily social, rather than natural, phenomena. This view acknowledges the fact that humans can act and take decisions to reduce the likelihood of a disaster occurring or, at the very...
Tags: Report, Risk Assessment