In an emergency context, shelter and infrastructure tend to garner a lot of focus from local authorities—as well it should in many cases, as shelter is a basic right—and it was no surprise in Vietnam, experiencing two typhoons before the world’s attention turned to the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, that local authorities talked extensively about their struggles to meet all of the shelter and other infrastructure, such as school repairs, needs and demands. It did not take a lot of prodding on my part, however, for local authorities to talk about their disaster risk reducti
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