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Displaying 75 of about 114 resultsCOVID-19 is both a health pandemic that is killing thousands and a socio-economic crisis that is threatening the welfare of millions. Although the pandemic affects people across all walks of life, certain groups are more impacted than others.
This brief, developed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific,…
Although the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA)/Coronavirus Recovery Needs Assessment (CRNA) methodologies and Disaster Recovery Frameworks (DRF) have been widely used and disseminated, few evaluations or lessons learned documents have been produced to assess their actual impact and contributions to recovery in the countries where they have been impl…
Puerto Rico has suffered the compounded effects of multiple disasters since the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017. At the end of 2019, the island was impacted with recurrent seismic activity in the southwest region, and in January 2020 the unset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
All these disasters are underscored by a crushing…
The International Recovery Platform Herald (IRP Herald) is the periodic newsletter of the International Recovery Platform. The IRP Herald reports on IRP activities and serves as the knowledge report for the annual International Recovery Forum, as well as recovery-related content from other major conferences.
IRP Herald Volume 32 is the knowledge report…
The unprecedented scale of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has taken the world by surprise. Since it was declared a pandemic in March 2020, COVID -19 has continued to upend lives and disrupt livelihoods around the world. ASEAN has not been spared. As time unfolds, it had shown that COVID-19 is not only a global public health crisis, but also a global eco…
This month’s Manchester Briefing discusses co-production as a strategic method for the design and delivery of societal resilience. Building on TMB Issue 33 we detail the opportunities, principles, and techniques of successful co-production. Co-production is a popular approach to service design and delivery and has been found to exist in all se…
Since COVID-19 was first recognized in December of 2019, it has spread to almost every country, infected millions of people and killed hundreds of thousands. But this pandemic is much more than a public health crisis. In addition to causing the greatest global economic downturn in almost a century, it is threatening to reverse decades of development gai…
This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 40) launches the University of Manchester searchable database of international lessons on Recovery and Renewal. The new database offers a searchable function for all of the 575 individual lessons that have been shared through The Manchester Brief since April 2020. The brief details the database and shares updates o…
This month’s Manchester Briefing offers an early definition of ‘whole-of-society resilience’ which aims to support the development of a shared understanding of this new term. The Briefing explores the meaning of ‘whole-of society’ resilience and the implications of whole-of-society resilience for emergency planning in the UK+.
Also, as we beg…
This month’s The Manchester Briefing outlines a methodology to self-evaluate Recovery plans and Renewal strategies. The self-reflection methodology can be used in conjunction with ISO/TS 22393 featured in TMB Issue 39 and its operational version featured in TMB Issue 49. By reflecting on their response to COVID-19, organisations can identify those strat…
This paper presents the World Bank Group's (WBG) approach to COVID-19 crisis response including thematic areas and policy priorities based on its comparative advantages, as well as the operational and financial frameworks for scaling up impact in a world transformed by the coronavirus. It also summarizes the Bank Group’s contribution to building the cri…
The Manchester Briefing brings together international lessons and examples that may prompt your thinking on the recovery from COVID-19. The Briefing is aimed at those who plan and implement recovery from COVID-19. This week's Manchester Briefing (Issue 29), has a guest briefing on recovering and renewing organisational resilience post-pandemic (by Graha…
This week’s Manchester Briefing details some COVID-19 topics that are being worked on across three research areas: Communities; Systems; Recovery, Renewal, Resilience Frameworks. The briefing summarises six research topics and details how these aim to enhance understanding of Recovery, Renewal, Resilience in the context of COVID-19. The b…
This report analyses health spending in 53 countries in the WHO European Region from 2000 to 2018 (the latest year for which internationally comparable data are available). It reviews key patterns and trends in health spending over time and across countries in the following areas:
health spending before the COVID-19 pandemic;
the priority given to h…
This report describes how ambitious economic objectives can be achieved by providing evidence based tools and information to guide countries to spend better and improve policies. The world has witnessed unparalleled economic progress in the last three decades. But success is not preordained, and several headwinds threaten this hard fought progress.…