Funding Reconstruction: Role of Finance in Post-Disaster Permanent Housing Reconstruction and Retrofitting

About Build Change:

? US 501(c)3 international non-profit social enterprise with
programs in Indonesia, China and Haiti
? Founded in 2004 by Elizabeth Hausler, bricklayer and Ph.D.
earthquake engineer from University of California, Berkeley
? Goals: Design earthquake resistant houses; train builders,
homeowners, government officials and engineers to build them;
change construction practice permanently
? Mission: Greatly reduce deaths, injuries, economic losses from
housing collapses due to earthquakes in developing countries
? Impacts: 73,000 people living in houses improved by Build
Change, over 12,000 people trained; no damage to minimum
standard houses in 2009 earthquake; governments adopting Build
Change model