This paper discusses the post-conflict health system recovery process, including integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR) into health recovery interventions, its strengths, challenges and lessons learnt. It seeks to inform the post-2015 Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) post-conflict/disaster health system recovery agenda in Africa.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
This Guidance Note for Post-Disaster Health Sector Recovery is intended to provide action-oriented guidance to local and central government health sector officials who face post-disaster challenges related to health sector recovery.
Pan American Health OrganizationInternational Recovery PlatformGlobal Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)World Health Organisation Regional Office for the Americas
The Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessment is an approach to identify and address recovery and peacebuilding requirements and lays the foundations for a longer-term strategy in a country facing conflict or transitioning out of a conflict-related crisis.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)European Union
This brief provides preliminary findings from the third round of Independent Impacts and Recovery Monitoring Nepal (IRM) project, which was conducted after one and half year of Nepal eatthquake.
This report outlines and examines the changes made to Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) in the Philippines based on lessons from Super Typhoon Haiyan. It analyses how major stakeholders transformed lessons from Super Typhoon Haiyan into policy responses and reforms to HADR operations, including civil-military coordination.
This study analyses the laws related to disaster risks in Indonesia using the pilot version of the ‘Checklist on Law and Disaster Risk Reduction’, which was developed through a global consultation process.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
This report examines the implementation process as well as local awareness and reception of the program and provides recommendations on how it can be improved. It also outlines the policy background of the cash grant program.
This study looks in detail at two very different floods: Columbia and Charleston floods, which occurred due to the October 2015 torrential rainfall and flooding in South Carolina. Based on interviews with impacted households and people involved in risk
Institute for Social and Environmental Transition - InternationalZurich Insurance Group LimitedAon Benfield
A five-year study analyzing the health and wellbeing impacts of the Black Saturday Bushfires in Australia tracked the interplay between mental health and social connections of natural disaster survivors. The results should inform efforts by government