This report provides a comprehensive evaluation of the transportation sector before and after Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017.
The authors describe the status of Puerto Rico's communities in terms of population characteristics and dynamics, community and individual preparedness, and economic pressures leading up to the landfalls of the hurricanes.
The study highlights learnings from past disasters and features 10 lessons and good practices from Asia-Pacific. The study also provides a few Recommendations for covid-19 socio-economic recovery.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has massively disrupted lives and livelihoods, it also provides a once in a lifetime opportunity to create a safer, more resilient world able to adapt to the threat of climate change and other perils. Within COVID-19 recovery and economic stimulus packages there will be opportunities to address multiple risks, including climate change impacts. This policy brief outlines recommendations and questions to consider to help policy makers incorporate resilience and systems thinking into stimulus and recovery packages so communities and governments can be more resilient to the multiple risks the world faces.
This publication provides an overview of key results achieved by UN Women in terms of COVID-19 response and recovery in its programme countries and territories in Europe and Central Asia between March and August 2020.
On 13 March 2020, the World Health
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN)
As Puerto Rico recovers from Hurricanes Irma and Maria, effective supply-chain management and recovery governance will be vitally important to a successful outcome.
Drawing on best-practice frameworks, available data, interviews with FEMA and COR3, and case studies, the authors analyze Puerto Rican municipalities' capacity and needs in four key areas: strategy, management, operations, and finance and administration.
This report describes the work done on estimating the costs of, and identifying potential funding sources for, Puerto Rico’s economic and disaster recovery plan.
