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The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19 is aimed at those who plan and implement recovery from COVID-19, including government emergency planners and resilience officers. This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 41) examines Financial Technology (FinTech) and Digital Government as policy delivery tools during COVID-19 and how these tools may be used in recovery and renewal. 
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This study seeks to advance discussions and reflection on legal, policy, institutional and coordination approaches to dealing with displacement associated with disasters, conflict and their interplay.

In this article we draw on three cases to analyse the relationship between geographical and social forms of remoteness and the concepts of vulnerability and capacity. Recognising that capacities and vulnerabilities tend to co-exist in a population, the

This climate risk profile is intended to serve as a public good to facilitate upstream country diagnostics, policy dialogue, and strategic planning by providing comprehensive overviews of trends and projected changes in key climate parameters, sector

This report summarizes findings on the current level of disaster risk management (DRM) and the financing dedicated to DRM by those municipalities, and identifies gaps in awareness and use of DRM tools, such as resilience building and risk transfer tools

This paper reviews the evidence on the inclusion of refugees in government-led social protection responses to Covid-19 in the Republic of Congo and Colombia and the alignment or integration of international humanitarian and development actors’ cash

This brochure describes a more sustainable cattle ranching model - silvopastoral systems - that enables ranching to adapt to the rigors and risks of a rapidly changing climate. Cattle ranching, one of the most important sectors of Colombia’s rural economy

This report discusses how few people living in informal settlements in the Global South spontaneously claim that they are “resilient” or “adapting” to disaster risk or climate change. Surely, they often overcome multiple challenges, including natural

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