Learning from the pandemic recovery for a more green and resilient future for all

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are highly vulnerable to external shocks and stresses, especially, but not only, to the accelerating impacts of climate change. Building broad-based economic, social and environmental resilience and sustainability in SIDS is both critical and urgent. These reports take the COVID-19 pandemic experience in SIDS as an opportunity to capture learnings about effective crisis prevention, response and recovery strategies, and future priorities for building inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities and human settlements. 

Acknowledging the COVID-19 pandemic as much more than a health crisis, the reports dissect immediate and more structural response, resilience and recovery efforts. They ask to what degree SIDS have emerged from the pandemic with more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive cities and settlements, and offers recommendations to inform their future development. These stress the need for integrated urban action with cross-sectoral benefits, and opportunities for inter-regional learning and collaboration among the SIDS regions.