COVID-19 Policy briefs

Policy briefs based on the outcomes of UNDRR's webinar series.

UNDRR Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Brief: Reducing vulnerability of migrants and displaced populations

This brief highlights the impact of COVID-19 on migrants, refugees and displaced people and offers some policy recommendations to ensure their health and well-being are protected in COVID-19 prevention, response and recovery.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific

UNDRR Asia-Pacific COVID-19 brief: Leave no one behind in COVID-19 prevention, response and recovery

This brief highlights the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on certain groups of people and offers some key policy recommendations to ensure no one is left behind in COVID-19 prevention, response and recovery.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific

The natural environment as a disaster hazard—the growing global health threat

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Re-emergence of Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Synergizing the preparedness and response measures with the Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Bio-hazard disaster risk governance through multi-agency cooperation

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Biological hazards and risk assessment

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

The interconnected and cross-border nature of risks posed by infectious diseases

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Using science for disaster risk reduction: report of the ISDR scientific and technical advisory group, 2013

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Scientific and Technical Advisory Group

Training package on natural hazards and early warning for training of trainers’ in Kenya

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa, National Platform for Kenya created under the Office of the President, Special Programmes