Re-Alliance Publications

Building a Garden on the Roof

This picture-led booklet, made in collaboration with GUPAP and Sporos, explores how to grow Permaculture-inspired gardens on the roof, especially designed for communities with limited access to land.

Community Composting

This illustrated guide explores how to establish composting at community scale, to build soil health, cycle 'waste', and grow community cohesion.

Community-Based Response to Collective Trauma

This guide is for community responders to help them provide initial psychosocial support in times of disaster or emergency.

Ecological Sanitation with Reuse in Camps and Settlements

A guide to closing the sanitation loop in refugee and IDP camps and settlements: How to safely use the products of ecological sanitation for growing crops, ecosystem restoration and ecosystem services.

Ecosans: Toilets in a Barrel

This illustrated guide explores how to build and maintain a urine-diversion composting toilet called an Ecosan, which captures nutrient-rich urine for plant fertiliser, and human manure for use in farming.

First Response to Trauma

This picture-led booklet, made in collaboration with SACOD, explores how community responders can work with people who have experienced trauma in a safe way.

Food Growing in Camps and Settlements: Collecting, Storing and using Rainfall and Grey water

This practical guide covers approaches to growing food in camps and settlements with limited water.

Gardening with Grey and Rain Water in Camps

An illustrated guide of how to save and use grey water and rain water for food growing in refugee camps and settlements, made in partnership with SOILS Permaculture Association - Lebanon, and Malteser International.

Growing Mushrooms in Reusable Containers

How do you grow nutritious, edible mushrooms in reusable containers? This guide explores one method of using upcycled plastic containers to grow mushrooms for food.

Growing in Crisis: The costs, benefits and transformative potential of food growing in Cox's Bazar

A study looking at the impact of new and previously established gardens in Cox's Bazar refugee camps on people's well-being and nutrition, as well as the costs and benefits of the different approaches used.

Humanitarian Settlement Planning: A Review

Authored by Simon Watkins and Paul Bröker, this review surveys existing guidance and practice relevant to humanitarian settlement planning, with a focus on how far current approaches support regenerative outcomes. It maps key tools and standards, identifies gaps in coverage, and frames critical questions for agencies, practitioners, and communities.

Seasonal Food Growing in Refugee Settlements

This picture-led booklet advises on seasonal food growing in refugee camps, made by Re-Alliance's partner SOILS Permaculture Association - Lebanon, in partnership with German Development Cooperation - GIZ, Mercy Corps, and the World Food Program. Translated from the original Arabic with permission from SOILS Permaculture Association - Lebanon.