This working paper, just published by ODI presents the findings from a pilot research project in the Philippines and Nepal that investigated how disaster-affected households in low- and middle-income countries rebuild their homes in situations where little or no support is available from humanitarian agencies. The project was an interdisciplinary collaboration involving social scientists, geoscientists, structural engineers and humanitarian practitioners. It investigated households’ self-recovery trajectories and the wide range of technical, environmental, institutional and socioeconomic factors influencing them over time. It also considered how safer construction practices can be more effectively integrated into humanitarian shelter responses.
Download from https://www.odi.org/publications/10963-self-recovery-disasters-interdisciplinary-perspective
You can also download the executive summary (in English, Tagalog and Nepali) from the this web page.
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