YemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 04 2007 | people, humanitarian, urban planning, Governance, Aid Policy, Urban Risk, human rights, IDPs (intercity) and resettlement
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urbanization without effective planning on infrastructure (speciifcally roads)...this issue is very common in a lot of major African cities (from what I have seen so far)...disparity in urbanization and displacement (eviction) of many poors living in major cities.Quoted: Central Abuja looks like a modern capital with wide streets and a skyline with spectacular public buildings. But four years after a massive urban demolition programme began in 2003, little progress has been made in resettling the roughly 800,000 people that the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) estimate have been displaced.
YemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 29 2007 | people, humanitarian, Natural Disasters, Aid Policy
"Despite the typhoons eventually veering off and weakening, Governor Salceda said that the preparations were worth it. “Was it worth P19.5 million to save a single life? Yes, it was,” the governor told IRIN, adding that they were now documenting their experience in readiness for the next typhoon. "
Quoted: In a sign of the nation truly coming together to thwart disaster, the Philippine military even suspended counterinsurgency operations against the New People’s Army as the typhoon approached to focus on disaster operations, and the communist rebels responded in kind by declaring an indefinite ceasefire in typhoon-ravaged areas.
- YemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 25 2007 | people, humanitarian, Natural Disasters, aid policy, early warning
Quoted: Pre-emptive evacuations. Provincial governors in coordinated with local officials activated local disaster coordinating councils to conduct “pre-emptive evacuation” of residents in threatened areas, particularly in ...
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