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Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) Report: Cyclone Ditwah, Sri Lanka 2025 thumbnail
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This is a comprehensive assessment that will guide Sri Lanka's recovery and reconstruction efforts following one of the most devastating disasters in its recent history.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
World Bank, the
Cover_Danish Refugee Council, International Medical Corps, Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam
Documents and publications
Publications

The policy brief highlights the importance of rebuilding Syria’s education system to support recovery, social cohesion, and the reintegration of returning displaced families.

Danish Refugee Council
International Medical Corps
Norwegian Refugee Council
Oxfam International Secretariat
Tempestade Erin Cabo Verde 2025: Avaliação das Necessidades Pós-Desastre (PDNA) thumbnail
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

Esta Avaliação de Necessidades Pós-Desastre visa identificar e quantificar os impactos, estimar as necessidades de curto, médio e longo prazo, e apoiar a formulação de um quadro estratégico para uma recuperação e reconstrução resiliente.

Cabo Verde - government
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
World Bank, the
PDNA Guidelines Road Sector in Cambodia
Documents and publications
PDNA Guidance

This paper aims to develop Cambodia’s context specific road sector guidelines for Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA).

Cambodia - government
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Surviving Disaster: Resettlement, Recovery and Ongoing Risk at Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia thumbnail
Documents and publications
Case Study

This report presents an analysis of the long-term impacts of the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcanic eruption on wellbeing and livelihoods. It investigates how social differentiation influences recovery processes and vulnerability to volcanic hazards.

University of East Anglia
Housing, Land and Property (HLP)-Sensitive Urban Law: Enhancing urban law to protect HLP across the conflict cycle (Conflict Prevention) thumbnail
Documents and publications
Publications

This report examines how urban law can protect housing, land, and property (HLP) rights across the conflict cycle and support recovery, reconstruction, and resilience in conflict-affected cities.

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
Review article: Social media for managing disasters triggered by natural hazards: a critical review of data collection strategies and actionable insights thumbnail
Documents and publications

This paper presents a comprehensive critical review of 250 studies published between January 2010 and September 2023 that examine how social media data have been used to manage disasters triggered by natural hazards.

Aon PLC
Quantifying the influence of coastal flood hazards on building habitability following Hurricane Irma thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study develops habitability functions to quantify the relationship between hydrodynamic hazards and the probability of buildings becoming uninhabitable following Hurricane Irma.

European Geosciences Union
Recurrent risk and the disaster loop: A forensic approach to urban flooding thumbnail
Documents and publications

This publication examines how recurrent flooding in Guadalajara, Mexico, is not the result of isolated hydrometeorological events but the outcome of long-standing socio-spatial, institutional, and historical processes shaped by inequality.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Cover_UNHCR, WB
Documents and publications
Publications
Reports and analysis

The report analyzes the socio-economic impacts of conflict in Sudan, highlighting worsening food insecurity, displacement, and livelihood challenges based on the fourth round of the Welfare Monitoring Survey.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
World Bank, the