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Supporting Nepal to Build Back Better
Documents and publications
Publications

This brochure offers a succinct look at UNDP’s key contributions to Nepal’s recovery and the efforts to Build Back Better and Stronger over the past two years.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Documents and publications

This paper provides an analysis of economic resilience at the national level, presenting a broad picture of changes in resilience to climate extremes over a 42 year period. It focuses on 12 countries in the Sahel, East Africa and Asia that are part of the

Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters
sierra leone 2017 pdna
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) covers the damage, losses, and recovery needs following the 2017 landslides and flooding in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Sri Lanka 2017 PDNA
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This PDNA report covers the damage, losses, and recovery needs across various sectors following heavy rain and flooding in Sri Lanka in 2017.

Sri Lanka - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Nepal PDNA 2017
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

The Post Flood Recovery Needs Assessment offers an objective basis for recovery planning and measures for reducing future risks. It estimates the impact of the 2017 floods that affected the Terai region and to identify medium-term recovery needs.

Nepal - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Marshall Islands 2016
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report is a rapid socio-economic assessment of the sectors impacted by the 2015-2016 drought in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. This assessment is the first PDNA of a drought in the Pacific.

Marshall Islands - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Documents and publications

This research discusses the willingness of homeowners to relocate or rebuild following Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Disasters (Wiley)
Documents and publications

This report warns that the combined human and economic impacts of extreme weather on poverty are far more devastating than previously understood.

World Bank, the
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
Documents and publications
PDNA Guidance

FEMA's Damage Assessment Operations Manual expedites decision-making and delivery of assistance by defining national standards for assessing damage and clearly outlining the information considered when evaluating requests for a major disaster declaration.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Policies and plans
Policy type
Regional policies and plans

This regional framework has been developed to provide an integrated approach to address climate and disaster risks. The framework recognises the clear overlaps between climate change adaptation and disaster risk management, and the similar tools and

Pacific Community