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Displaying 130 of about 130 resultsOn 15 August 1868, a great earthquake struck off the coast of the Chile-Peru border generating a tsunami that travelled across the Pacific Ocean. Wharekauri-Rēkohu-The Chatham Islands, located 800 km east of Christchurch city, was one of the worst affected locations in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Tsunami waves, including three over six metres high, injured an…
Natural disaster recovery is multidimensional and takes time depending on vulnerabilities. Change occurs as households embedded within integrated social and environmental systems adapt or transform.This study focuses on the April/May 2015 Nepal earthquakes to understand rural natural disaster recovery. Household surveys were conducted on critical e…
The Recovery Capitals (ReCap) project applies a Community Capitals lens to disaster recovery to increase understanding about the interacting influences of social, built, financial, political, human, cultural, and natural capital on wellbeing outcomes. It aims to support wellbeing after disasters by providing evidence-based guidance through a range of re…
A dos años del 19s, ante el cambio de administración en la ciudad y los cambios en la política pública frente a la reconstrucción (aún pendiente), presentamos la actualización del Manual para para la reconstrucción con dignidad.
En esta ocasión, iremos dando a conocer distintos fascículos que ofrecen información específica y que se complementan entre s…
This document should be read in the context of the Secretary General’s report on the Socio-Economic Impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Group’s framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19. In this report, the UN Environment Programme lays out how it is adjusting its work in re…
This Toolkit on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Crisis and Recovery Settings provides guidance on how to enable the leadership of women and girls while making sure that their specific needs are met. It consists of seven thematic Guidance Notes covering UNDP’s main areas of work in crisis and recovery contexts (pp. 8-9). Each Note offers concr…
Rather than recommend a single dominant option for pandemic response in Australia, the authors present and explain two options for the nation’s consideration – elimination or controlled adaptation. Any choice between these two options entails a delicate trade-off between protecting health, supporting the economy and societal well-being. This report…
A Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (the Framework) is needed to ensure that disaster recovery programs can be evaluated for their effectiveness. By improving the quality of disaster recovery evaluations, governments will be able to improve subsequent disaster recovery programs, to the extent that the learnings from these evaluations are incorporated…
A revised and updated version of the Disaster Recovery Framework (DRF) guide that was originally issued in 2015 has been published in March 2020. The guide is intended as a practice-based, results-focused tool to assist governments and partners in planning for resilient post-disaster recovery following a large-scale disaster. It provides key planning an…
Since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, ASEAN has responded swiftly, affirming its commitment to work together to overcome the pandemic and concurrently consider its collective and long-term socioeconomic recovery strategy. One of ASEAN’s main COVID-19 initiatives is the ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework (ACRF), which serves as the region’s consolida…