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Friday, November 26, 2010

Disaster Funds: Lessons & Guidance on the Management & Distribution of Disaster Funds

Please find reproduced below, in full, an email from Dr. John Twigg

Disaster Action - a great organisation - has just released what looks like a really useful new publication:

"Controversy surrounds many disaster funds, even decades after they were launched. Little guidance is available to those who take on the responsibility of managing and distributing funds in accordance with the wishes of the donors. Disaster Funds: Lessons & Guidance on the Management & Distribution of Disaster Funds, published by Disaster Action with support from the DCMS and the British Red Cross, fills that gap. It is an essential resource for emergency planners, fund trustees, administrators and managers."

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Post disaster shelter and sustainability

Professor David Sanderson, Director, Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at the School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University has announced that as a follow-up to the ELRHA funded shelter conference held at CENDEP in September in association with CARE UK, the final report, presentations and podcasts awesome sessions are now available online at http://bit.ly/cSRhQs

The conference examined what role shelter should have in disaster relief and development while critically reflecting on its implementation at local and international levels. It was agreed, that while technological shelter solutions are important, good shelter practice always puts people first. This may mean reassessing practitioners' roles and responsibilities to include ways to work more successfully with affected people in a process, rather than focusing on providing an end product.