New Overseas Development Institute event - Can disasters become an opportunity? Building back better in Aceh, Myanmar and Haiti

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	Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - Events Update January 2014

	Can disasters become an opportunity? Building back better in Aceh, Myanmar and Haiti
	28 January 2014 14:00 - 15:30 and streamed live online
	Can disasters become an opportunity for bringing about transformative change? This event will launch a new Humanitarian Policy Group paper 'Disaster as Opportunity? Building Back Better in Aceh, Myanmar and Haiti'. It seeks to contribute to the resilience debate through an examination of what 'build back better' meant in three disaster responses, the Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and the earthquake in Haiti. Speakers Lilianne Fan - Research Fellow, Humanitarian Policy Group Jo da Silva - Director, Arup International Development Priscilla M. Phelps - Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction Advisor, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery Simon Levine - Research Fellow, Humanitarian Policy Group Chair - TBC    Follow #buildbackbetter on Twitter for live coverage.

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