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IRP provides recovery guidance and a comprehensive library of recovery resources to support the practice of disaster recovery and building back better.
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Disaster Recovery Guidance
2023

Building resilience through livelihoods and economic recovery

This guidance note presents UNDP's updated approach to livelihoods and economic recovery programming in Fragile and Post-Crisis/Transition Settings (FACTS).
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Documents and publications
2023

Residential landslide insurance in Sitka, Alaska: Market conditions and options for improving availability

In this Perspective, the authors characterize the market for landslide insurance prior to and following the 2015 Alaska landslide and describe four approaches that stakeholders might consider to make landslide coverage more available.
RAND Corporation
Malawi Cyclone Freddy PDNA
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments
2023

Malawi 2023 Tropical Cyclone Freddy Post-Disaster Needs Assessment

The Malawi 2023 Tropical Cyclone Freddy Post-Disaster Needs Assessment report assesses the impacts of the disaster and provides recommendations for building back better in recovery and reconstruction.
Malawi - government World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Documents and publications
2023

Shaping a resilient future in response to COVID-19

The paper argues that navigating the twenty-first century requires a fundamental reboot of the logic for economic progress and human development, away from a dominant belief in efficiency and optimization.
Nature Sustainability
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Disaster Recovery Guidance
2023

Disaster recovery planning: Explanatory note and case study

This publication outlines why post-disaster needs assessments (PDNA) should provide comprehensive details of the economic and social impacts of disasters on countries to swiftly mobilize resources and support resilient recovery.
Asian Development Bank
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Documents and publications
2023

The role of ancestral practices as social capital to enhance community disaster resilience. The case of the Colca Valley, Peru

This research aims to analyze the role of ancestral Andean practices in building community resilience in settlements exposed to volcanic risk.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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Documents and publications
2023

Addressing financial recovery gaps for South Carolina households: Models for inclusive disaster insurance

This report provides a comprehensive review of the current resources for economic recovery post-disaster in South Carolina and explores one mechanism for filling identified gaps in recovery: new disaster insurance models.
Environmental Defense Fund
Recovery and Reconstruction after the 2023 -Earthquakes in Türkiye
Documents and publications
2023

Recovery and Reconstruction after the 2023 Earthquakes in Türkiye: Proposed areas of UNDP Assistance

This document outlines UNDP's proposed projects for aiding in the recovery and reconstruction efforts after the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Documents and publications
2023

A rapid estimation method for post-earthquake building losses

This study proposed a new approach for rapidly estimating post-earthquake building loss with reasonable accuracy. Rapid estimation of post-earthquake building damage and loss is very important in urgent response efforts.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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Documents and publications
2023

Social media-based urban disaster recovery and resilience analysis of the Henan deluge

This study proposes an analytical framework for urban disaster recovery and resilience based on social media data that can analyze short-term disaster recovery and assess disaster resilience from the perspectives of infrastructure.
Natural Hazards (Springer)

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