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A collection of MINEDUC/UCEFS-approved technical drawings of school buildings. Plans include typical elevation, layout and common details examples
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School safety and education are both key to reducing the impact of disasters. The role of education in reducing disaster risks is enshrined in all global commitments and frameworks. Foremost among them is the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), which has acknowledged education as one of its five Priorities for Action. Complementing the HFA is the UN Decade for Education and Sustainable Development (ESD) (2005–2014) in which Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is stated a core priority.
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In general, the indoor environments to which humans are exposed tend towards being increasingly homogenized. The result is that humans are becoming adapted to a very narrow band of conditions. Such specialization in adaptation needs to be examined in terms of sustainability over the longer term and the overall adaptability of the human species. This document looks at thermal design that understands thermal comfort ranges, but also that understands the importance of thermally ‘stimulating’ environments.
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The ways in which a society allocates title and property rights over land is an important indicator of the nature of that society. The central issue discussed in this paper is what types of tenure and property rights currently exist, how have these served the needs of lower income groups and what implications do they have for policies relating to urban land tenure and property rights. The literature is examined to obtain evidence of alternative options and experience from different countries.
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The CORE workshop is a 5 day course developed to increase the facilitation of basic humanitarian training. Upon completion of the course, participants will receive accreditation which enables them to facilitate the CORE training workshop and further training in DRR, response and recovery. Workshop course participants will be certified from the Advisory Group.The CORE workshop is a 5 day course developed to increase the facilitation of basic humanitarian training.
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This literature review contains a list of references to publications and case studies relevant to the shelter component of humanitarian response following disasters. Literature was selected from the Shelter Centre online database that contained the terms ‘Coordination’, ‘Strategy’, ‘Assessment’ or, ‘Implementation’ in the title or abstract. The abstracts of these documents were then inspected to ascertain their relevance to humanitarian shelter responses.
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This paper has been prepared, following the request of the Working Group of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)5, with the overall goal of enhancing the understanding of civil-military relations, including the difficulties and limitations of such relations. While numerous complicated questions arise out of this relationship, what remains vital for the humanitarian community is to develop a clear awareness of the nature of this relation, as well as a common understanding on when and how as well as how not to coordinate
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This Guide suggests how the Health Cluster lead agency, coordinator and partners can work together during a humanitarian crisis to achieve the aims of reducing avoidable mortality, morbidity and disability, and restor- ing the delivery of and equitable access to preventive and curative health care as quickly as possible.
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Past and current seismic design provisions for steel structures in Japan are presented and compared with Canadian requirements. The performance of steel framed structures during the 17 January 1995, Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake is described.
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This table is an Information Management output of the Indonesia Shelter Cluster.
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