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Displaying 15 of about 116 resultsGENEVA, 1 February 2012 - An insightful new report on the 2010 Haiti earthquake offers a scathing critique of an international community which “has much to learn from the response in Haiti where it has shown an ability to repeat its errors and shortcomings from past disasters.”
Two years after the event, the PAHO Report: Health response to the earthqua…
An experienced engineer is required with proven overseas experience in the practical design and implementation of construction and shelter projects to provide expertise to Tearfund’s Disaster Management reconstruction work in Haiti.
The position will provide structural engineering advice and oversight to construction projects in the form of design, rev…
Build Change is an international non-profit social enterprise that designs earthquake-resistant houses in developing countries and trains builders, homeowners, engineers and
government officials to build them. Build Change’s designs are affordable, culturally appropriate, and use materials and techniques that will continue to be used after our intervent…
Build Change has ongoing post-earthquake housing reconstruction programs in West Sumatra, Indonesia and Sichuan, China. So far, Build Change has improved the design and/or construction of over 6,400 houses, trained nearly 950 builders and over 1,000 technical high school students, engineers, and government officials in safe construction techniques. Buil…
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is seeking a talented professional for the role of Community Development Specialist. The Community Development Specialist plays a key role in developing and implementing community engagement and support strategies, open and transparent accountability and feedback mechanisms, developing community capacity, and de…
Experts from academia, government, and the private sector at Earthquake Symposium 2010 will address seismic risk and discuss potential solutions for saving lives and minimizing property damage. Among the subjects to be discussed are:
- Haiti, Chile, and Los Angeles: Experiences in Contrast
- Assessing the Risks of Seismic Activity in Los Angeles
- Risk…
The third in a series of professional development earthquake engineering seminars presented by Haiti's Quisqueya University (UniQ) and the University at Buffalo's Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) offers six programs that provide in-depth instruction on seismic design practices for Haiti.
Developed with UniQ faculty a…
Vacancy No: 2008-250-fld
Purpose
The Shelter Coordinator, under the direction of the Head of Operations, will work in collaboration with the National Red Cross, other Movement Partners, delegates, international agencies, national staff, local authorities and affected communities within the mandate of the Movement in order to ensure efficient and effec…
Vacancy No: I 08 106
Primary Function
The Head of Food Security & Emergency Programming is responsible for overall supervision of CRS/Haiti’s programming in the following areas: Agriculture and Natural Resources Management (ANRM), Agro-Enterprise Development (AED), Savings Led Micro-Finance (MUSO), Food-for-Work (FFW) and Infrastructure, Early Warn…
A Canadian construction company has donated 170 earthquake-resistant connectors for a building trades school that is being constructed in Haiti. The school is designed to be seismic-resistant, so it will function as a safe-zone as well, providing food, shelter and medical assistance in case of a natural disaster.
The importance of reducing exposure to disasters took on a personal hue for the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström.
The envoy had been due to present the Secretary-General's Report on the Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to the UN General Assembly in the first w…
In her article for the Financial Times, Helen Clark, administrator of the UN Development Programme and former prime minister of New Zealand, praises Haiti's efforts to build back a more resilient country with 'urban ingenuity.' Talking about a UNDP and Haiti government initiative which has registered around 20,000 people, with 5,000 are being trained in…
This paper discusses various strategies and approaches on post-disaster shelter construction, especially regarding transitional shelter, and presents case studies from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines and Haiti.
The lessons learned provided in this paper are the following ones:
Knowledge of good, safe building practices is req…
This publication is a synthesis of lessons from more than a decade of Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming in coastal geographic contexts. Based on research in Port au Prince, Haiti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nairobi, Kenya; and Freetown, Sierra Leone, this publication describes Concern’s approach to DRR and offers lessons and guidance…
This report examines the national legal and regulatory frameworks with regard to disaster risk reduction in Haiti. It analyses the extent to which legal frameworks in Haiti support national and local efforts towards disaster-risk reduction (DRR).
The study covers a broad scope of law and regulation relevant to DRR for natural hazards, including issues…