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Role of social capital in reinforcing community resilience

31 Oct 2013
The study published by IFRC finds that while social capital has always played an implicit role in the community-based work of the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement – the volunteerism at its core, as well as the community-based committees and ac...
Research, Public Awareness and Public Education
Report

Building Sustainability in an Urbanizing World: A Partnership Report

31 Oct 2013
The report summarizes the sustainability issues faced by cities and points toward the road ahead. It reviews successes in policy as well as investment and discusses what is needed to reach out to the rapidly growing cities of the developing world and...
Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience

Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in Megacities: A Pilot Application in Metro Manila and Kathmandu. Executive Summaries

30 Oct 2013
The report presents the executive summaries of the final reports of projects carried out under the ‘Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in Megacities: A Pilot Application in Manila and Kathmandu’ initiative. The projects aimed at enh...
Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Guidance note on recovery: pre-disaster recovery planning

30 Oct 2013
Pre-disaster recovery planning (PDRP) is the pro-active process of anticipating future recovery issues, developing a scenario-based recovery plan, and building the capacity to improve recovery outcomes – all before a disaster happens. Strong evi...
Guidance material, Post-Disaster Recovery
Guidance material

Urban risk assessments : understanding disaster and climate risk in cities

30 Oct 2013
Urban Risk Assessments: Understanding Disaster and Climate Risk in Cities (World Bank, 2012) provides a practical framework for analyzing and managing disaster and climate risks in urban areas. Designed for city officials, urban planners, and develop...
Guidance material, Risk Assessment, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing after Disasters

30 Oct 2013
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing after Natural Disasters, published by the World Bank in 2010, is a practical reference for governments, policy makers, NGOs, and project managers responsible for rebuilding housing and ...
Guidance material, Post-Disaster Recovery
Assessment or evaluation

Making Infrastructure Disaster-Resilient

30 Oct 2013
Making infrastructure resilient to natural disasters is a daunting challenge, not least because of the vast area of coverage that includes transport, electricity, water supply and sanitation, and buildings and other structures. Resilience refers to a...
Assessment or evaluation, Infrastructure and Services, Urban Resilience
Report

Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy

30 Oct 2013
This paper outlines the infrastructure resilience strategy of the Australian government. It examines a wide range of key issues including networks, supply chains, shared risk, cross-secotral approaches, and knock-on effects. Commonwealth of Australi...
Report, Infrastructure and Services, Urban Resilience
Report

Climate Resilient Infrastructure: Preparing for a Changing Climate

30 Oct 2013
This document has been produced as a response to calls from industry – infrastructure owners, investors and insurers – for a Government vision and policy on adapting infrastructure to climate change. It is designed to catalyse action to adapt i...
Report, Infrastructure and Services, Urban Resilience
Assessment or evaluation

Resilience in Action: Lessons from Public-Private Collaborations Around the World

30 Oct 2013
This report discusses nine outstanding cases of collaborations that build resilience, selected from an analysis of over 100 examples of public-private collaborations in developing countries. These case studies show how innovative collaborations can m...
Assessment or evaluation

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