Natural disasters: how can we improve? : Media Gallery

Cameron Sinclair

Cameron Sinclair, Co-Founder of Architecture for Humanity, discusses the role of small NGO's following a natural disaster. Including the importance of a long-term reconstruction and recovery and the role of open networks. 

Barbara Stocking

Barbara Stocking, Chief Executive of Oxfam GB discusses the ways that large NGO's are improving their response to natural disasters.

Panel discussion

Martin Bell chairs a discussion with our speakers, Cameron Sinclair and Barbara Stocking.

Q1 Professor David Sanderson

What skills are required by architects to become more engaged in NGOs?

Q2 Christopher Reeves

How do you deal with the issue of people often looking for the lowest cost product as opposed to the best value to the community and building local business around that?

Q3 Steffan Colback

Haiti is an enormous project; how is the overall coordination carried out? And can aerial photography be used to map the whole areas and help plan progress?

Q4 Nigel Woof

What solutions might there be for spreading the funding for NGO's over a longer period, rather than just the immediate relief period?

Q5 Shailesh Kataria

How proactive are NGO's in going the extra mile to engage with the provate sector and built environment professionals

Q6 Drew Craig

How can the relationship between NGO's and the greater aid world be improved with the military?

Q7 Marco Bulmer

How are the NGO's gaining an understanding of geohazards with organisations such as the Royal Geographical Society?