The blog for disaster management and humanitarian nerds. Every year, around 100. 000 people gather near the town of Roskilde and for a week, an otherwise peaceful town in the countryside is turned into a serious party zone, where festival goers camp out in a field and in effect erect a mid-sized town for a week or so.

Climate change is affecting us all. Find out how we embed climate change adaptation throughout our projects. A new energy for refugees report. Call to for better access to basic products. More news and press releases.

Adapting humanitarian response to a changing world. See the full blog series. The Urban Humanitarian Response Portal is a global site to share knowledge on urban humanitarian crises. The site includes programme reports, lessons learnt, policies, tools and methodologies relevant to responding to crises in urban environments. We like to invite you to contribute. Relevant documents, events and blogs. Conflict, violence and peace.

Smallholder Farmers and Productivity for Food and Livelihood Security.

Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection. DG ECHO e-learning on Humanitarian Food Assistance. FAC Field Mission to Haiti. Geneva Based Cash Working Group meeting Audio and video conference to be held on Tuesday 21st . Cash learning partnership - CaLP.

Environment in shelter and settlement programmes. Information about how to include the environment in humanitarian shelter and settlement programmes. Click on the icons below for information on environmental considerations at different phases of shelter and settlement programme development. Information about environmental considerations at the policy and guideline level including office management, global logistics and warehousing.