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This issue brief focuses on the ways donors and emergency response practitioners can build long-term disaster resilience by working with local markets and market-based approaches during a disaster recovery and investing in long-term programming.

Working

Mercy Corps
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PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report assesses the scale of damage of the 2016 floods in Vietnam and lays the groundwork for effective recovery and reconstruction efforts in the five priority provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen and Ninh Thuan.

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
Viet Nam - government
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This book offers recommendations and guidance to enhance the disaster resilience of the academic biomedical research community in the United States of America, with a special focus on the potential actions researchers, academic research institutions, and

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, The
National Academies Press
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This publication outlines a number of potential solutions and enablers that could form part of the global response to climate and natural hazard risks. It advocates for improved risk modelling and mapping and assesses the value of risk financing. It

Insurance Development Forum
Herald vol. 20 -EN
Documents and publications
IRP Herald

IRP Herald Volume 20 reports on five IRP-supported sessions at the Third World Reconstruction Conference (WRC3).

International Recovery Platform
Documents and publications

In this report, the well-being metric is used to assess the benefits of 11 different disaster risk management policies in 117 countries.

World Bank, the
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This report provides estimates of the potential benefits from risk reduction, risk management and recovery policies in 117 countries. These estimates provide insight into promising courses of action, but do not indicate whether or what measures need to be

World Bank, the
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This policy brief highlights financial capital as a key factor in building flood resilience. In particular, access to pre-event financial protection against flood-related disasters is a vital component. Solutions range from insurance and micro-insurance

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Practical Action
Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center
Zurich Insurance Group Limited
Documents and publications

This publication compiles a series of impact stories and best practices on livelihoods recovery, skills development and business development in the midst of continuous eruption of Mt. Sinabung in Karo District, North Sumatra, Indonesia, since 2010. 

The

International Labour Organization (ILO)
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This Guide was developed to support the implementation of the Decent Work Agenda in fragile, conflict and disaster contexts in response to numerous requests from ILO officials and constituents that wished to be better informed about ILO’s capacity, added

International Labour Organization (ILO)