The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19: Planning for recovery from COVID-19, Issue 39

This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 39) details our new international standard ‘ISO/TS 22393 Guidelines for planning Recovery and Renewal’. ISO/TS 22393 provides a framework for how to assess the impacts of COVID-19 on communities, and address these through transactional recovery activities and transformational renewal initiatives. Lessons are shared from: 

• UK – future priorities for communities;
• Tanzania & Pakistan – good practice community participation;
• Red Cross – strategies to address core humanitarian issues;
• OECD – resilience in the SME sector; 
• Australia – equitable and viable city centres; 
• Peru & Malawi – social innovation for emergency response; 
• Colombia – the inclusion of refugees in social protection; and
• Our case study explores Gender and COVID-19, featuring a guest blog by Abbie Winton AMBS on ‘Gender and food retailing’.