Urban resilience

20 years of local learning and knowledge co-creation in Asia: The case of Southasiadisasters.net

Celebrating 20 years, Southasiadisasters.net amplifies local knowledge across Asia—connecting community voices to global action for resilience.

• Research and Studies

Towards climate and extreme heat resilience: Lessons from African and Asian communities

Communities in Africa and Asia share local solutions for extreme heat resilience, highlighting grassroots innovation, and adaptation

• Research and Studies

From heatwaves to cooling futures: Maharashtra’s leadership in climate action in India

This issue features 17 contributions from practitioners, researchers, and institutions working across Maharashtra’s heat resilience landscape.

• Research and Studies

Lead service line replacement cost calculator (LSLRCC) tool

A free, multilingual planning tool advancing safe drinking water, equity, and climate-health resilience.

• Guidance and Tools

Evaluation of China WFP Country Strategic Plan 2022-2025

Evaluation of WFP’s country strategic plan for the Niger for 2020–2025

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Nature-based cooling solutions for cities

This special issue brings together global, regional, and local experiences to explore nature-based solutions (NbS) as an environmental necessity and climate justice tool for urban cooling.

• Research and Studies

Urgency of urban heat adaptation

• Research and Studies

Implementation of the water and sanitation for health facility improvement tool (WASH FIT): global report

An analysis of how different countries are applying the Water and Sanitation for Health Facility Improvement tool (WASH FIT), and recommendations for improving and integrating it with health, energy and climate efforts.

• Research and Studies

Evaluating extreme heat projects and programmes: Key lessons

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Final Evaluation Report for the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society’s Livelihoods and Disaster Risk Reduction Programme´

Entrepreneurship support in Uganda’s refugee response

This learning brief takes stock of the different approaches to entrepreneurship support implemented in the Uganda refugee response and documents learning to inform future programming

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

WASH, waste, electricity and infection prevention control (IPC): reflections from Ukraine

Dr. Margaret Montgomery of the WHO WASH team, shares lessons on improving WASH, waste management, and infection prevention and control in health care facilities across Eastern Ukraine, from co-facilitating a workshop for health care facilities.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Data analysis to leave no one behind in Tulsipur, Nepal

This report examines poverty and inequality in Tulsipur, Nepal, identifying those most at risk of exclusion and providing evidence to inform inclusive policies and strengthened social protection, thereby ensuring that progress in poverty reduction is shared equitably.

• Research and Studies

GUIDANCE FOR RESPONDING TO DISPLACEMENT IN URBAN AREAS

• Guidance and Tools

Data analysis to leave no one behind in Simta, Nepal

This report from Development Initiatives examines Simta municipality, using census and local data to identify who is most at risk of being left behind. It highlights women and children as the most disadvantaged and calls for stronger data and social protection to ensure inclusive development.

• Research and Studies

The realities of self-reliance within the Ugandan refugee context

An assessment of livelihood barriers and enablers for refugees and host communities in urban and settlement locations.

• Research and Studies

Disaster risk reduction in West Africa and the Sahelian region: A review of progress

This report is an assessment of progress at the regional level and in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal against the ‘African Union Programme of Action for the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 in Africa’.

• Research and Studies

Chinese lending to East Africa: What the numbers tell us

This report analyzes China’s US$7.3 billion loan commitments to East Africa, between 2015 and 2020, specifically to Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, showing how funds were distributed across countries and sectors, the terms of financing, and how China’s role compares with other major donors.

• Research and Studies

Systems thinking for humanitarians: An introduction for the complete beginner

• Research and Studies

Navigating the Nexus: A Brighter Future for Children in Urban Contexts in Central America

• Research and Studies