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Case Study

This report presents good practices in the promotion of economic empowerment of women in the post-disaster situations through entrepreneurship development in Japan and the Asia Pacific region.

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
Documents and publications
Case Study

This report focuses on the first five months after the Nepal Earthquakes of 2015 and reviews the current legal and institutional framework for disaster risk management in Nepal and highlights its gaps and limitations in the context of the recent disaster.

Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative
Housing Subsector Report Mercy Corps Intervention Areas 2015 Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal
Documents and publications
Publications
Reports and analysis

This Housing Subsector study was performed in order to collect and analyze important information regarding the housing-related needs and priorities of the people affected by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Mercy Corps’ areas of intervention.

Build Change
Documents and publications
DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The document was developed to ensure safe and methodical recovery from incidents affecting populations in Chatham County.

Chatham County (USA)
Herald vol. 13 -EN
Documents and publications
IRP Herald

IRP Herald Volume 13 is the knowledge report for the workshop on “Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into Development Policies and Planning”, the IRP Strategy Retreat, and the annual report meeting for the DRA.

International Recovery Platform
Documents and publications

This report presents the outcome of a project carried out with the aim to establish an efficient system of infection surveillance to cover all of the clinics in Rikuzen-Takata of Japan in the wake of the the Great East Japan Earthquake – using only the resources that were locally available: The project also aimed to maintain this system until most of the evacuation centres would be closed.

World Health Organization (WHO)
Documents and publications
Case Study

This study was conducted to evaluate the main causes and damages of flood (2010) in district Charsadda.

University of Peshawar
AsiaNet Pakistan
Documents and publications

This book identifies and recommends recovery practices and novel programs most likely to impact overall community public health and contribute to resiliency for future incidents. It makes the case that disaster recovery should be guided by a healthy community vision, where health considerations are integrated into all aspects of recovery planning before and after a disaster, and funding streams are leveraged in a coordinated manner and applied to health improvement priorities.

Institute of Medicine