Recovery

This report presents a participatory risk-tolerance methodology developed to support recovery decision-making in Grindavík, Iceland, following prolonged volcanic and seismic activity that began in 2023.

This paper presents a self-assessment tool for Community Recovery Committees in disaster-affected Australia, highlighting its usefulness in identifying governance, roles, and priorities, and recommends further testing and flexible government support.

This study examines conflict in disaster recovery collaborations in Australia, identifying psychological, procedural, and substantive interests as key drivers, and suggests reframing conflict as an opportunity to improve decision-making.

An initiative by World Vision and VisionFund with catalytic support from The Coca-Cola Foundation, SIMS responds to growing climate pressures by helping protect local enterprises, markets and economic opportunity in Malawi and Zambia.

For this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNDP describes how risk-informed housing and land-use planning is taking shape in Cuba, Jamaica and Venezuela, in a region where 81.2 per cent of the population lives in cities.

After Cyclone Gezani devastated Madagascar, pre-arranged financing programme, REPAIR, helped mobilize over US$15 million within seven days, supporting emergency assistance, cash-for-work activities and community-led recovery for more than 400,000 people.