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Displaying 90 of about 234 resultsLarge health shocks such as COVID-19 carry an expensive price tag – for the response, the recovery, as well as more long-term economic losses. The response phase is typically characterised by a great sense of urgency as the public financial management (PFM) system attempts to provide funding quickly in order to curb the outbreak early. However, in many…
This is an occasional paper series from NDRC Nepal documented by Dr. Dhruba Gautam, Adviser and Research Fellow of #NDRC on #COVID19 Response and Readiness in #Nepal. The document talks about the pandemic context, Nepal efforts and challenges as well as recommendations to cope with the situation in COVID-19 response.
This paper exposes some of the successful covid-related public health interventions that were made in China in the hope their understanding will provide ideas for international epidemic control.
In the past five months, success in control the national epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been witnessed in China. The implementat…
The EmPower: Women for Climate-Resilient Societies project, jointly implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN Women and supported by the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency, puts gender equality at the heart of climate action. Through UNEP, the project focuses on harnessing renewable energy to build resilient livelihoods f…
The EmPower: Women for Climate-Resilient Societies project, jointly implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP)and UN Women and supported by the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency, puts gender equality at the heart of climate action. Through UNEP, the project focuses on harnessing renewable energy to build resilient livelihoods for…
The Hyogo Prefectural Government (Japan) has developed revised guidelines to support municipalities with preparedness and the operation of evacuation centers in the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The original guidelines were published in Japanese, but they have been summarized and translated into English for this publication.
The present study aims to understand the geographical influence on the spatial distribution of COVID-19 transmission at the regional level in the context of India. It uses long-term climatic records of air temperature (T), rainfall (R), actual evapotranspiration (AET), solar radiation (SR), specific humidity (SH), wind speed (WS) with topograp…
COVID-19 has emerged as a huge shock that will affect all public social systems directly and indirectly. This report synthesises the findings from a series of rapid situation analyses on the initial response to COVID-19 in the first few months of the outbreak – March to May 2020 – in five countries: Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.…
COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented global impact. Since its onset, the Government of India, State Governments, and local authorities have been directing all their efforts towards handling the crisis. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) with the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) will be releasing a series of art…
The field of urban studies has made important contributions to the study of SARS and other infectious diseases by exploring the conceptual linkages between global cities and epidemiology. This commentary adds another dimension to that work by highlighting linkages between urban pandemic management and the emerging field of urban robotics. Urban robotics…
Extreme weather events, the annual monsoon season, and the health and economic impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic are hitting communities hard in Bangladesh. Without urgent action by the government and donors, the impact of monsoon hazards will compound the effects and risks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and increase the chances of transmissi…
Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, while its people also suffer from a range of environmental hazards linked to the growing prevalence of non-communicable diseases. These diseases are responsible for increasing morbidity and mortality and lead to other stresses within the population. Such stresses create continuous imp…
This book is intended to provide an overview of the concept of ecosystem approach to disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR), natural resource management and disaster linkages, incorporating Eco-DRR concepts in various phases of disaster management, including post disaster recovery in wide range of human and natural environmental settings. The case studies co…
This report is a compendium of understanding, concepts, experiences and lessons of disaster risk management (DRM), emergency response planning and capacity building in Nepal. It also provides a chronology of the development of DRM processes in the country including government's initiatives in creating suitable policy and legal environments for effective…
This study finds that 17 million people were newly displaced by sudden-onset disasters worldwide in 2009, and over 42 million people in 2010. To meet this challenge, the study recommends that greater collaboration is required between those working in the fields of humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and development. I…