Pakistan

The focus of this week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 38) is the role of the individual in relation to crises and the benefits of public involvement in emergency planning. We discuss how recovery reinstates preparedness, while renewal enhances resilience

This publication is a performance evaluation of the Building Disaster Resilience in Pakistan (BDRP) program. Poverty in Pakistan is concentrated in rural areas where 70% of the population lives. Based on World Bank’s poverty headcount analysis, at US$1.25

This paper reviews the evidence on the inclusion of refugees in government-led social protection responses to Covid-19 in the Republic of Congo and Colombia and the alignment or integration of international humanitarian and development actors’ cash

This study analyzes responses to past natural disasters in four countries in South Asia - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Pakistan. Of 178 hazardous events reported in the four countries during the 10 years covered by this study (2009–19), 126 were

This paper discusses how coastal communities are increasingly at risk from the negative impacts of climate change, including more intense storms, floods, coastal erosion, and sea intrusion. Socioeconomic and political factors make people vulnerable to

This publication provides an overview of climate risk for Pakistan. Pakistan is characterized by diverse topography, ecosystems, and climate zones. Rich in natural resources, including fertile agricultural lands, natural gas reserves, and mineral deposits

This study examines how large-scale environmental shocks, specifically floods, alter the gender division of labor in traditional rural societies using individual-level time allocation data from the Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey 2012, 2013, and

Highlights

• There is a need to holistically understand influencing factors of DRR and complex interplay among them in Indigenous research.

• Western research does not attend to societal factors that contribute to Indigenous disaster risk