..., and particularly deficient on the subject of informal and precariousness settlements. The evaluation allowed a deep and broad analysis of NA-DRR in urban informal settlements, comparing it with other DRR strategies implemented by different stakeholders in fragile urban settings, assessing the effectiveness...

...Richard Shaun Walls; Rodney Eksteen; Charles Kahanji; Antonio Cicione Purpose Informal settlements are inherently unstructured in nature, lack adequate services, regularly have high population densities and can experience social problems. Thus, fires can easily propagate rapidly through such areas...

... strategy, the USAID, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), along with international and local partners, was able to successfully address the recovery challenges facing a small community in one of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s informal settlements impacted by the devastating 2010 earthquake. Based...