For those who haven't come across it, I would like to refer you first to the Confined Masonry Network "dedicated to promote seismically safe and economical housing worldwide by bringing quality confined masonry into the design and construction mainstream." Tom Schacher's contribution of educational materials developed in India and international efforts at collaboration mark significant progress. Also two social networks with efforts to support disaster resilient reconstruction in Haiti: Haiti Rewired which is working on adaptation of confined masonry handbook from Marcial Blondet in Peru, and Reconstructing Haiti. In addition, UNESCO is leading an ad hoc group that grew out of the UNISDR Global Platform contributing the Global Task Force for Building Codes Resource Page and hopes to spur early action towards usable building codes, esp. for school and hospital reconstruction. Resources from Kashmir, Bhuj, China, and elsewhere all invited.
We would like to invite those with experience in both community-based disaster resilient construction education and strategic planning for post-disaster disaster-resilient reconstruction to put your experience into pithy 4-5 paragraph, blogs - with illustrations please. Bearing in mind that our colleagues on the ground have little time to read, no room to be rhetorical or pedantic just now.
Many with international experience in community-based construction education have been pre-authorized to contribute here. If anyone else would like to contribute, please write to mpetal @ riskred.org (removing the spaces from the address).
Contribution from IFRC China
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