Review of effectiveness of LA RED programs in Central America in terms of fund leverage, human resource development, institutional strengthening, partnerships, scientific/technical advances, and policy uptake.
This report shares what the Global Fund for Women has learned from direct grantmaking to women's rights groups to support women struggling to rebuild their lives and communities after a number of natural disasters.
Effort to develop open source version of Individual Household Model, which is an adaptation of the Household Economy Approach for local level economic impact analysis.
Site providing tools and background information on preparedness and risk management for drought.
'The purpose of this research is to recognize exactly what problems exist with temporary housing in the long term (after 5 years) and to identify, using a systems approach, the origin of these problems within the project process for temporary housing.'
Basic guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations. Its 'good enough' approach emphasises simple and practical solutions and encourages use of tools that are safe, quick, and easy to implement.
'This guide provides a series of starting, generic checklists of outcome indicators and related information considered pertinent to studying emergency services responses.'
Thesis paper by Stephanie Kipp that 'examine how and under which influencing factors a Third World Country can efficiently manage economic impacts from natural disasters'.
'This paper analyses the socio-economic effects of hurricane Mitch using a gender approach and proposes new analysis indicators for crisis situations that may better reflect women’s disadvantageous position relative to men.'
Article on the risks posed for those living trailers as temporary housing after Hurricane Katrina.
