This brief presents six policy options for local governments to harness the benefits of insurance to help improve post-flood financial resilience for lower-income households.
Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center
This paper covers the scopes of recovery and resilience in Belize aiming to build on existing mechanism to enable rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This report, the first in a series, examines in detail the intertwined effects of the pandemic and climate change, and analyzes how these affect the prospects and ability of countries to recover better. In particular, the report highlights how smart adaptation strategies can contribute to better health outcomes, environmental benefits, and economic recoveries, and strengthen resilience against future systemic shocks.
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net offers a detailed overview of the various direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. India now holds the dubious distinction of having the second highest number of COVID-19 cases trailing only to the United States of America. As India settles to live with the "new normal" of rising COVID-19 cases and deaths, it is important to assess its impacts to plan for better recovery.
The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19 is aimed at those who plan and implement recovery from COVID-19, including government emergency planners and resilience officers.
This guide is meant to be used after undertaking a PDNA exercise. It aligns with the PDNA Guidelines for the estimated effects and impacts of a disaster on the cross-cutting ELSP sector.
The guide recommends the types of agriculture interventions to be implemented in the short-, medium- and long-term stages of recovery and reconstruction taking into consideration DRR and BBB aspects.
This Handbook serves to guide post-disaster housing reconstruction using an owner-driven housing reconstruction (ODHR) approach. It details the various processes, tasks and interventions involved in designing and managing ODHR programmes.
This guidebook is a planning tool to design, manage and assess recovery following a disaster. It describes institutional options, successful characteristics and management lessons based on real-world experience with disaster recovery operations.
The purpose of this plan is to provide guidance to officials in Sacramento County on how to organize and manage the short-and long-term recovery processes to assist the county in becoming more resilient to the impacts from future disasters.
