This publication contains 13 testimonies of those who were in the front lines responding to the 2017 earthquakes in Mexico from the health, education, culture, first response, international cooperation and reconstruction sectors.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - HeadquartersJapan International Cooperation AgencyAgencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo
The Socio-Economic Recovery Plan (SERP) for Namibia outlines a strategy to address the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, focusing on health, social protection, economic recovery, and resilience.
Risk communications as part of the Local Resilience Capability is the focus of this week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 37). The briefing explores the communication of risk before and during emergencies, and identify how two-way communications are central to local resilience capabilities.
This Handbook highlights the importance of localization of the SDGs, helps assess the impact of COVID-19 on women’s economic security and recovery, and offers tools to develop feasible solutions for economic recovery and gender equality.
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
This report presents community stories highlighting the mental health and wellbeing experiences of individuals affected by disasters, offering valuable insights and recommendations for supporting disaster-affected people.
This brief presents considerations for how health and humanitarian practitioners can support communities to respond to and recover from COVID-19 using a community resilience approach. As the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues, there is a
This week’s Manchester Briefing summarises a further eight COVID-19 research topics, within three areas: Communities; Systems; Recovery, Renewal, Resilience Frameworks. These projects will contribute to an overarching project. The briefing share COVID-19
Climate change has significant impacts on health both directly, such as injury and death from extreme weather events, or heat illnesses from temperature increases, and indirectly, including malnutrition, increased spread of vector-borne diseases, and
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)World Health Organization (WHO)
In this study, researchers developed an agent-based model to simulate and explore the post-disaster recovery (PDR) process in urban areas of Tacloban, the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Disaster risk management, and PDR in particular
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)