Developing Building for Safety Programmes: Guidelines for Organizing Safe Building Programmes in Disaster-prone Areas

This text offers practical guidelines on planning and implementing community-based building improvement programmes for small dwellings in disaster-prone areas. It includes sections on programme finance management and evaluation; safety principles for earthquake flood and high wind resistant construction; training and communication; social cultural and developmental factors. In highlighting key elements of successful programme design, the books draws lessons from a large number of case studies worldwide which are included as an appendix.