This short document draws on development good practice and experience, both from Myanmar as well as internationally, to share ways in which the private sector can use its investments to strengthen recovery activities.
This year's study compiles the latest statistics on the size and scope of the humanitarian system and assesses overall performance and progress in the period 2012-2014. The humanitarian system’s performance is assessed within its core functions of
Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance
This report presents good practices in the promotion of economic empowerment of women in the post-disaster situations through entrepreneurship development in Japan and the Asia Pacific region.
This report focuses on the first five months after the Nepal Earthquakes of 2015 and reviews the current legal and institutional framework for disaster risk management in Nepal and highlights its gaps and limitations in the context of the recent disaster.
IRP Herald Volume 13 is the knowledge report for the workshop on “Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into Development Policies and Planning”, the IRP Strategy Retreat, and the annual report meeting for the DRA.
This report presents the outcome of a project carried out with the aim to establish an efficient system of infection surveillance to cover all of the clinics in Rikuzen-Takata of Japan in the wake of the the Great East Japan Earthquake – using only the resources that were locally available: The project also aimed to maintain this system until most of the evacuation centres would be closed.
This book identifies and recommends recovery practices and novel programs most likely to impact overall community public health and contribute to resiliency for future incidents. It makes the case that disaster recovery should be guided by a healthy community vision, where health considerations are integrated into all aspects of recovery planning before and after a disaster, and funding streams are leveraged in a coordinated manner and applied to health improvement priorities.
This working document presents key considerations to ensure gender equality and women empowerment principles inform the transition process and reconstruction planning after the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian AffairsUnited Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
This study examines an aspect of wildfire disaster mitigation and recovery that has not been previously investigated. It seeks to analyse to what degree homeowners have actually adopted and implemented FireSmart measures to mitigate the risk of future