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About Safer Homes, Stronger CommunitiesWelcome to Safer Homes, Stronger Communities, the companion website for the Handbook for Reconstructing after Natural Disasters. The site aims to foster a community of practice around the subject of post-disaster housing and community reconstruction.
Experience demonstrates that housing and community reconstruction entails a complex series of interrelated decisions that, taken together, will directly affect the lives of those who have been touched by the disaster for years to come. The handbook has been written to assist World Bank staff, the Bank's counterparts in government, and others to make these decisions. The web site is intended to provide a forum that will contribute to these efforts and help improve them over time. Membership
Please sign up to be a member of the web site (click here). By becoming a Safer Homes, Stronger Communities member, users can contribute to discussion groups, comment on chapters, suggest additional resources, and be informed about related events. Member-contributed comments, discussion threads, and suggested resources will be moderated by the Safer Homes, Stronger Communities team.
Updates
The Reconstruction Handbook will be updated periodically as comments are received from users and as the disaster reconstruction field and its best practices evolve. Safer Homes, Stronger Communities members are encoraged to comment on the handbook chapters. Your comments will be taken into consideration in the next update of the handbook.
Web Site Organization
The handbook chapters can be accessed from the navigation bar on the left of every page. The Table of Contents provides access to both online (html) or downloadable (PDF) versions. Each section page also links to the chapters within that section.
Chapter Organization
Each online chapter contains light blue boxes that provide navigation within the chapter. A low-graphic version can be printed from the Print link within the online version of each chapter. There are also links to post comments, to download PDFs, and to access related chapter resources when they are available.
Getting Started
To become a member, click here.
To browse the handbook, go to the Table of Contents
To order the printed handbook, click here
To send a message to the Team, go to the Contact Us page.
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