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Displaying 15 of about 54 resultsAs countries continue to meet the immediate needs of the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis is forcing policymakers to consider the unavoidable trade-offs between saving lives and preserving jobs and livelihoods. Throughout Asia-Pacific, governments are considering options for restarting their economic engines and putting people back to work, including in ke…
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-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…
Background
COVID-19 that is continuing to cause human tragedy, social upheaval and economic turmoil across the globe can be considered as a once-in-a-century ecological security crisis that creates an urgent need for an in-depth reflection on the relationship between human beings and nature. But striking a balance between the two will not be possible u…
By Elif Ayhan and Illika Sahu
A Series of Natural Disasters
In August 2018 a devastating cloudburst brought unprecedented rain to the state of Kerala in southern India. Keralites love to romanticize the tropical monsoons. When it starts pouring, they say, everything is verdant and musical. But the monsoons of 2018 were anything but musical. The worst…
Cyclone Amphan hitting India and Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed people to complex and multiple risks. While the “build back better” narrative is popular, it has limitations. Lessons need to be learnt from recent recoveries from major disasters.
By Michael Boyland and Charrlotte Adelina
The “build back better” narrat…
Whether refugees living in overcrowded camps or jobless migrant workers forced to return home, the lives of millions of people in Asia-Pacific are threatened by the dangerous combination of displacement and the COVID-19 pandemic.
This brief, developed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, highlig…
This policy brief aims to complement the work being done by Government ministries, donors, United Nations agencies, International Non-Government Organisations (INGOs) and other research organisations on the socio-economic impact of COVID-19. It is based on desk study review of relevant research papers and reports and World Vision International’s experie…
While disasters occur relatively frequently almost none are of a scale as serious or complex as the triple disaster that devastated coastal regions of Tohoku, Japan. How can a region recover from a disaster as horrific as that triggered by the earthquake, tsunami and radioactive contamination linked to the explosions and reactor meltdowns at the Fukushi…
This case study has been developed to capture Japan’s experience in road geohazard risk management and offers a way forward for low- and middle-income countries. It includes a discussion of the:
Significant issues Japan overcame, such as the initially narrow scope of road management authorities and expansion of the mandate and planning for geoha…
This document focuses on best practices and lessons learned from Japan regarding resilient culturage heritage (CH) that might be of assistance in other contexts.
However, while Japan takes the protection of its CH very seriously, exposed as it is to a vast range of hazards, the country also faces several challenges and obstacles in operationalizin…
Societal Impact Statement
Ecosystem‐based adaptation (EbA) is increasingly being used to reduce the impacts of climate change on vulnerable people and landscapes. The international EbA South project implemented EbA interventions across three countries (Mauritania, Nepal, the Seychelles), piloting the restoration of mountain, desert and coastal ecosyste…
This study evaluates the impact of “group subsidies,” a policy intervention to repair and reinstall damaged capital goods and facilities of small and medium-sized enterprises after the Great East Japan earthquake.
A positive effect of the subsidies on small recipient firms’ postdisaster sales and employment was found in the study. There was also a posi…
By Sara Shneiderman, University of British Columbia; Jeevan Baniya, Tribhuvan University; and Philippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia
Does one kind of disaster prepare us for another? Five years after devastating earthquakes struck, Nepali citizens and their government are pondering this question while under lockdown due to the cor…
By Sulochana Nepali
“Mason training transformed my life. It provided me with an opportunity to not only gain new skills and experiences but also to serve my community,” recounts 38-year-old Kamala B. K. from Nuwakot in central Nepal.
Kamala is one of 149 women mobile masons hired by the National Reconstruction Authority in 14 districts most affe…
“What will we eat while waiting for the crops to grow?” is an Oxfam research report on effective early recovery for “off-the-radar communities” in selected countries in Asia and the Pacific. The research was conducted from March to November 2019.
In this report five disaster risk reduction and early recovery interventions from the Philippines, Van…