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Grenadines Floods 2016
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report provides a rapid damage and loss assessment to inform the Government ’s recovery planning. It includes recommendations to further incorporate disaster risk reduction and management into land use and physical planning decision-making processes.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
2016 Malawi Drought PDNA
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This PDNA provides an analysis of the physical, socioeconomic, and human impacts of the 2015-2016 drought in Malawi. It analyzes the challenges and lessons from the ongoing drought response and provides recommendations for improved drought resilience.

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

This PDNA examines the impact of the prolonged drought from 2012 to 2016 in Angola on the three southern provinces Cunene, Namibe and Huíla. It provides a recovery strategy and key interventions for each of the three provinces.

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

This report presents a summary of the main natural disasters that struck different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, affecting a large number of people and causing substantial damage to public and private infrastructure. The Mini-Cyclone

Provincial Disaster Management Authority
ASEAN Disaster Recovery Reference Guide
Documents and publications
Disaster Recovery Guidance

The ASEAN Disaster Recovery Reference Guide (the Guide) aims to help the ASEAN Member States prepare for recovery, and deliver timely, efficient and effective recovery programmes.

Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
A Guidance Note National Post-Disaster Recovery Planning and Coordination
Documents and publications
Disaster Recovery Guidance

This Guidance Note provides practical advice to UNDP Country Offices on how to design and implement recovery initiatives that will strengthen government capacity to lead and manage national recovery efforts in the early, medium and long-term.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Documents and publications
Case Study

This paper evaluates how the Philippines utilize social protection systems and programs to help households better manage disaster risk.

World Bank, the
Documents and publications

This last use case from the Global Agenda Council on Risk and Resilience highlights tangible examples from Nepal of where multi-stakeholder partnerships between the public and private sectors and civil society organisations made a difference, and where they could be scaled up to be more effective in future.

World Economic Forum (WEF)
Documents and publications

PLoS ONE 10(10): e0138714. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0138714:

This paper presents the quantification of the "permanent" socio-economic impacts of the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake in 1995 by employing a large-scale panel dataset of 1,719 cities

Public Library of Science
Documents and publications

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 (ALNAP)