Development Workshop œuvre avec des communautés les plus défavorisées afin de développer la capacité locale d’améliorer la qualité de vie et les revenus locales. Depuis 40 ans DW apporte la formation et l’assistance technique et organisationnelle auprès des habitants en difficulté afin qu’ils soient en mesure de faire face aux problèmes émergents dans leur environnement, qu’il s’agit des catastrophes naturelles, de la dégradation de l’environnement bâti et naturel, de l’impact du changement du climat et encore d’autres sources de pression et difficulté. Lire plus
Main conclusion : there is a gap from official evaluation to reality at local level, and the lack of financial resources is considered as the main obstacle for an efficient implementation of the DRR policy.
After the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction and the poor result or committment from the international community, the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for DRR has issued a Statement to voice for a more substantial support to DRR at local level.
This statement will be evaluated in the next years to see the progress for DRR.
This report presents findings of a study commissioned in 2010 by Development Workshop France (DWF) with support from the Building and Social Housing Foundation (UK) to assess the impact of the DWF project in Vietnam to promote the prevention of typhoon1 damage to housing and public building since 2000.
After the major floods in central Burkina Faso in 2010 that hit families in Samnatenga, Namentenga and Gnagna provinces, the EU is supporting a new LRRD project to rebuild families lives with a collaboration of four NGO: Christian Aid, Intermon Oxfam, Action Contre la Faim and Development Workshop.
For DW this means support and training for activity regeneration in woodless construction and pottery for flood hit familie to help rebuild thier lives over two years.
UN-HABITAT, the Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) and the UNDP Special Unit for South-South Cooperation have announced the winners of the Housing and Urban Development South-South Transfer Award, a special joint initiative which seeks to recognise housing and urban development practices that have been successfully transferred to other countries in the global South.
The awards were presented on 25th November 2010 as part of the activities of the Global South-South Development Expo in Geneva, Switzerland, a platform for showcasing successful Southern-grown development solutions to
