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Delivering Money: Cash transfer mechanisms in emergencies

28 Apr 2015
There is growing use of the provision of cash as a mechanism to provide relief to people after disasters, on the part of international aid agencies and governments. The banking industry is also undergoing rapid changes, with new technologies providin...
Report
Guidance material

ICRC/IFRC Guidelines for cash transfer programming

28 Apr 2015
Building on the broad range of cash experiences within the Movement and in the humanitarian sector, these guidelines provide practical, step-by-step support to the design and implementation of cash programmes. The objective of the guidelines is twofo...
Guidance material
Other type of resource

Responding to earthquakes 2008: Learning from earthquake relief and recovery operations

28 Apr 2015
This paper aims to provide a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes. It concentrates on issues of particular relevance in earthquakes. The paper assumes that readers are already familiar with the more g...
Other type of resource, Earthquake, Post-Disaster Recovery
Video

CaLP – Cash transfer programming

28 Apr 2015
Since 2010, the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department has been supporting a partnership between IFRC, CaLP and British Red Cross. The partnership seeks to use cash where it’s appropriate and to help ensure...
Video
Other type of resource

NSET materials on earthquake resistant construction

28 Apr 2015
A consolidation of the experiences of mason training gained in the Kathmandu Valley Earthquake Risk Management Project of the Asian Urban Disaster Mitigation Programme. Earthquake Resistant Construction of Buildings Curriculum for Mason Training, Feb...
Other type of resource, Earthquake
Case Study

Analysis of legislation related to disaster risk reduction in Nepal

28 Apr 2015
The geology, topography and tropical location of Nepal means that the country is faced with frequent natural hazards or risks that can lead to disasters causing displacement, loss of life, property and livelihoods. These include the annual monsoonal ...
Case Study, Disaster Law
Report, Research

Risk-Sensitive Land Use Plan: Kathmandu Metropolitan City

28 Apr 2015
‘Land use planning has been identified as one of the most effective ways to take the HFA forward. For highly vulnerable cities like Kathmandu, a land use plan offers an opportunity to incorporate risk reduction into development and spatial plans by...
Report, Research
Report

The Kathmandu Valley Earthquake Risk Management Action Plan

28 Apr 2015
An outline of objectives, strategies, and specific initiatives to identify, coordinate and focus risk management activities to reduce Kathmandu Valley’s earthquake risk over time. The plan also provides background information on Kathmandu Valley’...
Report, Earthquake
Assessment or evaluation

International Disaster Response Law (IDRL) in Nepal: A study on strengthening legal preparedness for international disaster response

28 Apr 2015
This report reviews Nepal’s legal and policy framework for disaster response with a focus on large-scale emergencies that exceed national coping capacities. It analyses Nepal’s legal preparedness for disasters by assessing its legal framework a...
Assessment or evaluation, Disaster Law
Case Study

Nepal’s Emergency Preparedness and Response System: Good practices, lessons learnt, and gaps

28 Apr 2015
“Though landslides, floods and epidemics occur annually right across Nepal, this study focuses on just nine of the nation’s 75 districts: six in the Far- and Mid-West and three in the Eastern development regions. It further narrowed its f...
Case Study, Communicable Disease, Early Warning Systems, Flood

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