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Displaying 120 of about 179 resultsHurricanes Irma and Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017 with devastating impact. The housing sector was hard hit. The storms revealed in harsh detail the vulnerability of Puerto Rico's housing stock to wind, flood, and landslide risk and brought to light many inadequacies in the structure of the housing market.
Through a detailed and comprehensi…
On September 18, 2011, Bhutan was hit by a 6.9 Richter scale earthquake that killed one person and injured 14 people. Houses, religious and cultural heritage monuments, and public buildings suffered the maximum and most visible damage in the earthquake: approximately 7,965 homes were affected, of which 345 were completely destroyed. Additionally, fifty…
This document is a technical guidance to support in shelter and housing for recovery efforts from the 2015 Malawi Floods.
This publication aims to capture the impact and vulnerabilities of different groups and sectors, including agriculture and fisheries, tourism, commerce and manufacturing, housing and settlements, low-income and informal workers, women, and youth to natural hazards in Tonga. The publication also gives an overview of Tonga’s exposure to different types of…
The World Reconstruction Conference (WRC) is a global forum that provides a platform for policy makers, experts, and practitioners from government, international organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), the academia, and private sector from both developing and developed countries to come together to collect, assess, and share experiences in…
This booklet captures the key efforts undertaken and results achieved over the past three years by UNDP in line with the vision articulated in its Strategy for Earthquake Recovery Assistance: including strengthening the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) while making recovery planning and coordination effective; resurrecting community infrastructur…
The Joint Communique of the 5th Edition of the World Reconstruction Conference affirms the commitment to (i) use recovery from the pandemic, disasters, conflicts, and other threats as an opportunity to reset the development pathway towards a greener and more resilient future, (ii) address the social and economic effects and impact of the COVID-19…
This contributing paper examines the interplay between official adaptive social protection (ASP) and grassroots efforts based on a case study of the rural reconstruction and recovery that took place after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China. Previous research has broadly demonstrated that these grassroots efforts have, to a certain extent, re…
In this paper, the authors assess tangible and intangible disaster recovery dynamics following the 2015 Nepal earthquakes and aftershocks in order to understand household adaptive capacity and transformation. They randomly selected 400 households in four communities across two highly impacted districts for surveys and interviews at 9 months and 1.5 year…
To achieve post-disaster recovery of rural households in developing countries, it is necessary to understand the recovery conditions and the factors that play significant roles in the decision-making process. The aim of this paper is (1) to explain the transition of the residential status (i.e., type of places or houses in which affected househo…
This study explored factors that contributed to the successful implementation of tsunami housing projects in Kerala, India. Necessary data were gathered through a survey of various stakeholders involved in tsunami reconstruction projects in Kerala using structured questionnaires.
The study also helped to identify project management traits that need imp…
This paper demonstrates the result of data analytics undertaken on the massive building damage survey data collected by the Government of Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquakes. The data of more than 1 million buildings contained geo-coded information of building characteristics such as typology, damage to structural elements and overall damage level.…
This publication critically examines urban policies and projects from the perspective of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, urban resiliency, inclusive cities, and the impacts of the informal economy. The 2014 volume marks the fifth year of the “Reducing Urban Poverty” competition, with chapters examining the following topics:
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This plan was prepared in the aftermath of the Oct 26, 2015 earthquake which caused human losses and extensive damages to public infrastructure, houses and other buildings in various areas of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.
The document contains a detailed damage assessment and lists priority interventions in areas of rehabilitation of phy…
This last use case from the Global Agenda Council on Risk and Resilience highlights tangible examples from Nepal of where multi-stakeholder partnerships between the public and private sectors and civil society organisations made a difference, and where they could be scaled up to be more effective in future.
The report offers the following key observati…