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Accountability as a Program of Philosophy
This paper is an attempt to bring into perspective the issue of accountability to victims as it relates to relief and the provision of housing in disaster situations. It is implied herein that making post-disaster housing ...
Lessons Learned from the use of Aquaprivy Sanitation Units in Khmer holding centers in Thailand, 1979-1982
([Foxcombe Publications], 1982)
A conventional aquaprivy consists of a squat plate with a drop-pipe making a water seal directly into a small septic tank underneath. Anaerobic digestion of the faecal material takes place in the tank, and excess effluent ...
Post-Disaster Technical Information Flow for the Reconstruction of Housing.
In the last few years, natural disasters in Haiti, Nicaragua, Turkey, Iran, Bangladesh, Peru and Guatemala destroyed housing to such an extent that massive reconstruction programs were needed. Following each disaster, the ...
A Report on the OXFAM Sanitation Units in Bangladesh, February 1977Report on the OXFAM Sanitation Units in Bangladesh, February 1977
(INTERTECT, 1977-02)
The criteria upon which the OXFAM Sanitation Unit was developed were described in the July 1975 OXFAM technical paper entitled "OXFAM’s Sanitation Unit". Those criteria can be summarized as follows: 1. The provision of an ...