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Displaying 60 of about 104 resultsThe civil society sector is experiencing pressure and strain unlike it has experienced before, under the COVID-19 pandemic. To explore how the sector has responded, engaged and acted this past year, the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute and Accountable Now have published a special accountability issue of AIDMI’s Southasiadisasters.net journal. Thi…
In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the relatively limited data available, the UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, through the Making Every Woman and Girl Count global programme, developed a rapid survey assessment tool to assess the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on the main challenges faced by on women and men…
This report gives a snapshot of the impact of Covid-19 and the structural inequalities faced by Black, Asian and minority ethnic people so far in the UK. It makes immediate recommendations to protect those most at risk as the pandemic progresses and presents next steps for beginning to tackle the underlying causes.
Covid-19 has thrived on inequali…
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the first pandemic caused by a coronavirus (COVID). Countries around the world moved swiftly to declare states of emergency, closing ports of entry and activating crisis management systems. This technical note highlights the adaptive nature and flexible application of national disaster mana…
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic crisis are posing huge challenges, raising many unknowns and imposing wrenching trade-offs. Both crises are global, but their impacts are deeply local. The policy response to both crises needs to be rapid, even if it is rough around the edges. But countries cannot pull this off on their own—the global cr…
This paper presents the results of quantitative research regarding the level of citizen preparedness for disasters caused by coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Serbia. The questionnaire examined citizens’ basic socio-economic and demographic characteristics, their knowledge, preparedness, risk perception and preventive measures taken individually and as…
The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting unique challenges to the protection of human rights around the world, including the Asia-Pacific region. This brief covers key human rights issues that have been long-standing areas of concern in the region and that have been exacerbated by the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. Other equally important human rights dimens…
This report focuses on the priorities for measures to be taken in the United Kingdom to support a gradual release from social distancing measures through a sustainable public health response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The authors do not address the clear structural and procedural weaknesses that contributed to the current situation as there…
This policy brief seeks to better understand the nexus between COVID-19, climate change/hurricane season and human mobility in the OECS region. The Eastern Caribbean region is currently faced with a dilemma: On the one hand, the region is struggling with the management of the COVID-19 pandemic which has necessitated extended State of Emergency peri…
This policy report aims to adapt the nexus approach to the intersection of disasters and pandemics in the Asia-Pacific. While the region’s prior experience with SARS in 2003 had prepared countries somewhat, the scale of COVID-19 has dwarfed previous pandemics, even for the leaders who responded early to the crisis such as Singapore and Vietnam…
The current COVID-19 response has required changes in workloads, work venues as well as physica distancing practices worldwide. This may create ambiguity or confusion with regards to warning services and tsunami response actions, like evacuation, and the implementation of national response plans. This document clarifies the status of the regional tsunam…
Just as women and men have unequal access to rights, resources and opportunities, they relate to and interact with the natural environment in different ways, face differing vulnerabilities and impacts, and have unique knowledge and adaptive capacity related to climate change, disasters and use of natural resources. The nexus between environment and gend…
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘The Impact of COVID-19 in Asia Pacific’ and takes a detailed look at how the pandemic has affected the various countries of the region. The social, economic, demographic and cultural diversity of the region has shaped the pandemic response of these countries, with varying degrees of success. For instance,…
The world is facing a global health and economic crisis unlike any, since the second world war — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering, and turning people’s lives upside down. But this is much more than a health crisis. It is a humanitarian crisis, and Asia’s children, especially the most vulnerable, are on the brink of severe hunger, in…
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This manual presents a clarification between natural hazards and 'natural disasters' and a discussion on risk and vulnerability, climate change and its impact on 'natural' disasters.
It describes briefly the framework of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA). The MA clearly links ecosystem well-being to human well-being, and presents the…