The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19: Building local resilience capability, Issue 35

This week’s Manchester Briefing details some COVID-19 topics that are being worked on across three research areas: Communities; Systems; Recovery, Renewal, Resilience Frameworks. The briefing summarises six research topics and details how these aim to enhance understanding of Recovery, Renewal, Resilience in the context of COVID-19. The brief also share lessons from: 

• Vietnam – disaster-responsive social protection; 
• Canada – tax-credits and other volunteer incentive programmes; 
• Ireland – recovery of tourism; 
• UK – Recovery and Renewal of town centres; 
• United Nations – investment in universal health coverage; 
• OECD – infrastructure investment; 
• Tonga – climate change adaption strategies; 
• USA – deliberative processes for recovery.

The case study spotlights a live research study which aims to learn from voluntary community response during the pandemic.