This study, based on the experience of rural housing reconstruction after the Wenchuan earthquake, identified key strategic issues in housing reconstruction that must be addressed to achieve the goal of “building back better” in the future.
The flood of 2014 in the Kashmir Valley was the worst flood in the last hundred years. This document has also suggested long-term measures that should be taken for building resilience.
The havoc caused by the 2018 Kerala flood was not only the result of unprecedented downpour but there were other reasons also which turned it more disastrous.
WFP has been supporting climate risk insurance as an important piece of the strategy for building women’s economic empowerment. It presents the story of women that have access to WFP’s climate risk insurance and related interventions.
This paper discusses, in the form of a case study, the resettlement process of Aranayake that took place in 2016. In Aranayake, 512 families have resettled at ten relocation sites or at their own residences.
This case study seeks to analyse and document the contributions of the PDNA and DRF to post-disaster recovery in El Salvador, including its ability to be adapted through the CRNA and other tools to the El Salvador context.
This study analyzed the content of Twitter data collected during Hurricane Harvey to identify the data of the highest relevance for assessing the impacts on infrastructure through automatically grouping the tweets by topics of discussion.
