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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.

This study explored factors that contributed to the successful implementation of tsunami housing projects in Kerala, India.

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘Perspectives on the Pandemic: COVID-19 in South Asia’ and brings forth different perspectives on managing the COVID-19 outbreak in South Asia. South Asia is unlike other regions in the world, it is

This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) guides the State and its agencies in undertaking a post-disaster needs assessment (PDNA) and in developing a recovery and reconstruction plan of actions to build back better

This article aims to develop an in-depth perspective on disaster management of natural and man-made disasters so as to minimize the loss accountability after occurrence of a disaster. Disaster management aims at managing the disaster in an efficacious way

SOP for heatwave has been developed by the District Disaster Management Authority of Gorakhpur with technical support from UNICEF, UP. In SOP, the roles & responsibilities of all the departmental stakeholders have been clearly identified & comprehensively

This Damage, Loss, and Needs Assessment (DLNA) of Cyclone Fani in Odisha was conducted between 24 May and 4 June 2019. Covering the 14 affected districts in the state, it presents estimates of the damage, loss, and recovery needs across 15 sectors.

Between June 1 and August 19, 2018, the state of Kerala went through the worst ever floods in the state's history since 1924. One sixth of the population — about 5.4 million Keralites — were affected. Following the disaster, the Government of Kerala felt