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Urban planning after humanitarian crises: Supporting local actors to take the lead

Urban planning after humanitarian crises: Supporting local actors to take the lead

February 22, 2017
by Victoria Maynard
English

How can humanitarian actors support local government to lead recovery and reconstruction planning after urban crises?  My current research project (with Elizabeth Parker, David Garcia…

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Freedom to participate: can the capability approach offer insight into participation in disaster recovery processes?

Freedom to participate: can the capability approach offer insight into participation in disaster recovery processes?

February 28, 2014
by Guest Blogger
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After a disaster, do people always have the capabilities to participate fully in the reconstruction and recovery process?  In the development and humanitarian fields, we…

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Neighbourhood-based approaches to development, displacement, and disaster

Neighbourhood-based approaches to development, displacement, and disaster

December 6, 2013
by Laura Heykoop
English

What do integrated neighbourhood approaches in Port-au-Prince, camp management-based approaches in Baghdad and participatory slum upgrading in Bangkok have in common? – well, a lot…

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Learning "lessons learned" from past disasters

Learning “lessons learned” from past disasters

November 19, 2013
by David Lallemant
English

It is shocking how many “lessons learned” documents rehash the same lessons that had supposedly been learned already. The conclusion seems clear: we are very…

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A rose by any other name: the evolution of the ‘early recovery’ concept

September 27, 2013
by Victoria Maynard
English

Since the introduction of the Humanitarian Cluster Approach in 2005 ‘early recovery’ has become part of the common vocabulary of humanitarian action.  But where does…

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Market day in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  Credit: David Lallemant

What do we mean by recovery?

July 12, 2013
by Victoria Maynard
English

In my masters dissertation I investigated the relationship between the shelter assistance provided after disasters and the recovery of affected communities.  While my research identified…

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Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 9 months after the Indian Ocean Tsunami.  Source: Victoria Maynard

Linking policy, practice and evidence

June 24, 2013
by Victoria Maynard
English

Following a disaster local, national and international decision-makers make complex choices in a rapidly changing situation.  They must match the needs of affected communities with…

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