Report from a comprehensive household vulnerability and risk study in Catanduanes and Camarines Sur provinces in the Bicol region of the Philippines that compared vulnerability in communities that had received ACF assistance versus others that had not.
Report to provide a useful contextual background and an overarching set of questions contextualised for the Haiti response that might inform the development of a shared evaluation framework for the earthquake response in Haiti.
'This paper provides a methodology and a set of indicators for measuring baseline characteristics of communities that foster resilience.'
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a network of 46 affiliated professors around the world who are united by their use of Randomized Evaluations (REs) to answer questions critical to poverty alleviation. J-PAL's mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is based on scientific evidence. J-PAL works to achieve this by:
Summary of hazard profiles and ongoing disaster risk management programs in 20 high-risk countries around the world.
A paper examining the short and long-run average causal impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth which found that only extremely large disasters have a negative effect on output, both in the short and long run
An evaluation of a joint Government of India - UNDP disaster risk management program aimed at reducing people's vulnerability to natural and man-made disasters through building community preparedness and conducted by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC).
Paper exploring the impacts of climate change and the costs for adaptation that will have to be absorbed by both households and the public sector. The paper makes some interesting points about the potential for increased education and empowerment for women and girls to drive reductions in the vulnerability of affected communities.
Results of a contest run by the Blog GOOD to visualize the impacts of the earthquake in Haiti.
