Recovery

This is a comprehensive assessment that will guide Sri Lanka's recovery and reconstruction efforts following one of the most devastating disasters in its recent history.

Nearly a quarter of the land in Ethiopia is degraded. It has lost its quality and can no longer grow crops, support plant life, or hold water as it used to.

Updating post-fire debris-flow hazard thresholds with satellite-tracked vegetation recovery reduces false alarms and improves predictions for years 2 and 3 after a wildfire.

As climate shocks escalate in frequency and severity across Eastern Africa, the chronic reliance on post-disaster emergency aid is proving too slow, too costly, and too inadequate to protect the region's most vulnerable communities.

Filipinos’ ideas about how to improve disaster response and recovery. Distributed to local communities, local government partners and high schools to support teaching on DRR.

This paper advances the concept of ‘Reformative Recovery’ and proposes an analytical framework as a sense-making tool to guide interpretation of recovery dynamics by foregrounding the conditions that foster vulnerability and impede long-term resilience

When disasters strike, they do more than damage homes and infrastructure—they test how quickly countries can mobilize finance, coordinate institutions, and turn “build back better” from aspiration into action.