This is a one-pager Shelter and settlements key messages on the most common short to mid-term shelter interventions carried out by shelter partners since the beginning of the COVID outbreak.
Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are at threat of increased frequency and severity of tropical cyclones and floods, fuelled by climate change. At the same time, PICs are rapidly urbanising. This brings many benefits, but also presents new challenges concerning disaster preparedness, protecting often flood prone densely populated settlements, and making critical infrastructure more resilient....
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and multiple tropical cyclones across the Pacific, in-country researchers from Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands explored each country’s urban response to disasters and the degree to which principles of Area Based Approaches are in place and utilised.
The Sphere Project, now known as Sphere, was created in 1997 by a group of humanitarian non-governmental organisations and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Its aim was to improve the quality of their humanitarian responses and to be accountable for their actions. The Sphere philosophy is based on two core beliefs:
1. People affected by disaster or conflict have the right to life...
Resumen