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The NATURAL HAZARDS TOOLBOX is a compilation of basic information on humanitarian cases caused by natural disasters. The NATURAL HAZARDS TOOLBOX strengthens the preparedness and response capacity of humanitarian workers in the field, health authorities and the public to the increasing dangers of natural disasters.

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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
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Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA
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World Health Organisation (WHO)
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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC
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MapAction
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World Health Organization (WHO)
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International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies
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Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Tsunami Global Lessons Learned Project
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Cordner, s.
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International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies IFRC
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UN Children's Fund
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UNICEF
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Pan American Health Organization PAHO
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R. Coninx
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Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
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Grampari
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Handicap International, CBM
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J.-J. Kim
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OCHA
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OXFAM
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PAHO/World Health Organization
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Tippy Tap
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UN Children's Fund UNICEF
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Watershed Management Group
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WHO
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World Health Organization, UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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Catholic Relief Services
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Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance
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Conant, J.
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European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
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Fadem, P.
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Hesperian Foundation
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IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross
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OCHA Services reliefweb
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Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
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UN-Habitat
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Government of Tamilnadu
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Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform – Nepal (HRRP)
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Inter-Agency Standing Committee
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Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC
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Jones, L.
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Médecins Sans Frontières
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Pan American Health Organization
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Sphere
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The Sphere Project
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UN Development Programme
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UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR
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UN-Habitat [Myanmar]
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UNDP
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United Nations
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United Nations Office for Disaster Risk reduction (UNISDR)
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World Food Programme (WFP)
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World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Food Security Cluster
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World Meteorological Organization
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A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, Katharine Shapiro
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Action Aid
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Adams, J
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Adventist Development and Relief Agency International, Caritas, Fiji Red Cross Society et al.
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Alastair Cook
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ALNAP, Provention Consortium
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American Public Health Association
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Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC)
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Asian Disaster Reduction Centre (ADRC)
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Atullya Foundation
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Bangladesh Red Crescent Society , et al.
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Bob Reed
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C. Hanlen
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Care and ONU Femmes
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CARE, Concern, CRS
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Care, ONUu Femmes et al.
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Care, UNO Women, Unicef et al.
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Cate Shockey & Kara Stephens
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Catholic Relief Services CRS
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Catholic Relief Services CRS, REPSSI
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American Water Works Association
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Chattopadhayay-Dutt, Purnima
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Cherian, M.N.
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CHF International, USAID
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College of American Pathologists
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Conant , J.
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Coninx, R.
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Connolly, M.A.
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Cosgrave, J.
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CRA Terre
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Curtin, M.
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Davis, Ian
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Department for International Development
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Department of Diaster Management, Government of Bihar
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European Commission
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Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK)
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Florida Health
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Food and Agriculture Organization
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Gemma Sou and John Cei Douglas
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Germanwatch
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Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES), Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union, Asia Disaster Preparedness Center
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Global Water Initiative
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Government of Japan, World Bank, GFDRR
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Government of Malawi
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Haq, Bashirul
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Harvard Humanitarian Intitative
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Health ClusterWorld Health Organization WHO
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Himachal Pradesh State DIsaster Management Authority
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House of Commons Library
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Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force - Indoor Environmental Pollutants Work Group
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International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks
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Kaz de Jong
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Kenya Red Cross
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Keswick, M.
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Kim, J.-J. et al. (Éd.)
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National Disaster Management Authority India
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Agency for International Development
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Nimesh Desai, Dhanesh Gupta, Ram Avtar Singh, et al.
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Nutrition Cluster
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Organisation Mondiale de la Santé OMS
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Organisation mondiale de la Santé
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Organização Mundial da Saúde
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Our World in Data
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Pacific Disaster Centre
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Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)
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Patel, V.
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Practical Action Publishing Ltd, Catholic Relief Services
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Public Health England, UNISDR
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Qureshi, Aqeel
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R Sari Kovats et al.
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Rahmat, R.
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RedR UK
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ReliefWeb
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Save the Children
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Scientific Animation without Borders SAWBO
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Sean Price
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Secretaría de Gestión de Riesgos (SGR), Secretaría Técnica de Cooperación Internacional (SETECI), República del Ecuador
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Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
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Shahnaz Arshad
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Shelter Cluster
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Snider, L.
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Sohaib Athar
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Soltani A, Ardalan A, Darvishi Boloorani A, et al.
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Southern African Development Community
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Steele, Andre
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SWABO Scientific Animations Without Borders
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Syrian Association for Relief and Development SARD
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The Emergency Capacity Building Project, Oxfam
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The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement (MSWRR), Relief and Resettlement Department
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The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, Relief and Resettlement Department
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The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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The Tippy Tap Org
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The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UNDRR
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The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K
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The World Bank
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The World Bank Group
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Tom Corsellis and Antonella Vitale
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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UK Parliament
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UKAid, CRS
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UN Children's Fund, Save the Children, Education Cluster
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UN office for Disaster Risk Reduction
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UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
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UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UNDRR
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Country Team in Yemen
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Resident Coordinator for Mozambique, UN Country Team in Mozambique
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UNEP
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UNESCO
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UNHCR
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UNHR
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UNISDR
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United Nation Children's Fund
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United Nations agencies, the World Bank and the European Commission
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United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
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United Nations Population Fund UNFPA
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University of Cambridge shelterproject
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University of Oxford
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UNOSAT, International Charter Space and Major Disasters
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USAID
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USAID, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Challenge TB
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Valsamma Eapen, Philip Graham & Shoba Srinath
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Van Ommeren, M.
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WarTrauma
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Water Engineering Development Centre
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WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
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WHO South-East Asia New Delhi
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WHO, EHT, CPR
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WHO, Unicef
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Wisner, B
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Word Health Organization
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Word Health Organization WHO
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World Bank, GFDRR
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World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food Security Cluster
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World Food Programme, Logistics Cluster
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World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office of the Western Pacific
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World Health Organization (WHO) and InterAgency Standing Committee (IASC), Save the Children, et al.
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World Health Organization et al.
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World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Africa
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World Health Organization WHO, War Trauma Foundation and World Vision International
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World Health Organization, MapAction, Health Cluster
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World Meteorological Organization,
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World Vision
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World Vision e.V
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World Vision, International Research Institute for Climate and Society
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World Vision2022
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Департамент "Остановить туберкулез", ВОЗ
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Мамель Куэлапио, Мария Идрисова, Гунта Дравниеце et al.
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Comment construier un Tippy Tap

Tippy Tap; Watershed Management Group; Grampari (2014) C1
Want to build a tippy tap? Want to teach someone else how to? Here is a graphical manual that works for both literate and illiterate populations. If you need a particular language that’s not here or can assist with translation, please let us know! Accessed 18 December 2014
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Regulatory barriers to providing emergency and transitional shelter after disasters - Country case study: Nepal

IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross Red Cresent Societies (2014) C1
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Broken links Psychosocial support for people separated from family members: a field guide
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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2014) C1
The 40-page field guide outlines possible causes of separation, discusses the psychosocial impacts of being separated, such as how we experience loss, and provides guidelines on how to support those who have been separated from family members – including delivering difficult news to loved ones, ba ... more
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УТРАЧЕННЫЕ СВЯЗИ Психосоциальная поддержка людей, утративших связь с членами своей семьи
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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2014) C1
Сломанные ссылки Психосоциальная поддержка людей, разлученных с членами семьи: руководство на местах. В 40-страничном руководстве описаны возможные причины разлук ... more
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Ready to Respond: Skills gaps for responding to humanitarian crises in urban settings in the WASH and shelter sectors
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RedR UK (2014) C1
This paper has been commissioned by RedR to identify gaps in skills, technology, and knowledge in urban humanitarian response in order to inform RedR’s project Ready to Respond which is looking to address these gaps in two specific areas: Water supply, sanitation, and hygiene; Shelter res ... more
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Prevent Illness After a Disaster (Kreyol ayisyen)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2014) C_CDC
Evite Maladi Apre Yon Dezas
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Preventing Diarrhoea through Better Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Jamie Bartram, Sandy Cairncross, Thomas Clasen et al. World Health Organization (WHO) (2014) C_WHO
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Kote Fanm Pa Jwenn Doktè

A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, Katharine Shapiro (2014) C2
Kreyol translation of Where Women Have No Doctor You can download single chapters for free from the website
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Broken Links: Psychosocial Support for people separated from family members, training module

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2014) C1
Broken Links: Psychosocial support for people separated from family members (Training module) and the corresponding Broken Links field guide are designed to support staff and volunteers in a wide range of settings where they may be in contact with families who have been separated from their loved ... more
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Site Selection Criteria for Sheltering after Earthquakes: A Systematic Review

Soltani A, Ardalan A, Darvishi Boloorani A, et al. (2014)
PLoS Curr. 2014 Aug 29;6. pii: ecurrents.dis.17ad1f98fb85be80785d0a81ced6a7a6. doi: 10.1371/currents.dis.17ad1f98fb85be80785d0a81ced6a7a6.
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Disaster Management Strategic Framework 2010-2015

Nepal Red Cross Society (2014) C1
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Casts & Splints

World Health Organization (2014)
Accessed 24 June 2014
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El Niño/ Southern Oscillation

World Meteorological Organization, (2014) C2
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KoBo Toolbox

Harvard Humanitarian Intitative United Nations; International Rescue Committee (IRC), et al. (2014) CC
Free and open source tool of choice for tens of thousands of humanitarians, development practitioners, global health workers, and researchers around the world. KoBoToolbox is a suite of tools for field data collection for use in challenging environments.Quickly collecting reliable information in a h ... more
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WHO Emergency & Essential Surgical Care (EESC) Program

Cherian, M.N. World Health Organization WHO (2013) C_WHO
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Step-By-Step Guide to Shelter Construction

Isaac Boyd, Kirtimayi Mishra, and Cassie Dummett Catholic Relief Services (2013)
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Guidelines for Earthquake Resistant Non-engineered Construction

UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2013)
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Technical guide for debris management - The Haitian experience 2010 - 2012

UN Development Programme (2013) CC
The building damage assessment, conducted between March 2010 and February 2011 by the Government of Haiti and the United Nations system, showed that more than 400,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed, of which approximately 218,000 could be occupied without repairs (green category), 105,000 were ... more
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Updated WHO/WEDC Technical Notes on WASH in Emergencies
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World Health Organization; Water Engineering Development Centre World Health Organization (2013) C_WHO
Download these technical notes directly from the website: These four-page illustrated notes, originally prepared in 2011 and updated in 2013, provide practical, evidence-based recommendations in responding to immediate and medium-term water, sanitation and hygiene needs of populations affected by e ... more
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Toward Resilience
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Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte L. Sterrett, and Amy Hilleboe Practical Action Publishing Ltd, Catholic Relief Services (2013) C1
A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation