27 Apr 2015
On June 11th, the Nepal Department of Urban Development and Building Construction (DUDBC) convened partners to launch a new study by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on “Regulatory barriers to providing em...
Tags: Case Study, Report, Infrastructure and Services
16 Jan 2017
There is a sense that the world food system has reached an impasse. Hunger afflicts at least an eighth of the world population (FAO, 2012), mostly in the global South, but also in the North where austerity policies – which respond to crisis by prio...
Tags: Report, Food Security, Urban Risk Reduction
02 Nov 2013
A case study about a farming community in Nigeria which was assisted by the NGO African Youth Movement to learn about water pollution and organise the resettlement of farmers and wood loggers to protect their drinking water. One in a series of video ...
Tags: Case Study, Community Risk Assessment, Technological hazard