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Settlement Approaches in Urban Areas

Avatar photo Aynur Kadihasanoglu December 7, 2017
This Compendium of case studies published by the Global Shelter Cluster aims to contribute to building a body of knowledge to promote and improve the application of settlement based approaches in humanitarian response. This initial collection of case studies represents one vehicle the working group is using to further the discussion on settlement based approaches.
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