systemic risk

TIMES OF CRISIS, TIMES OF CHANGE: Global Sustainable Development Report 2023

The 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) “Times” provides a comprehensive assessment of the current state of the world and the challenges involved in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…. Read more

Adaptive Social Protection for Effective Crisis Response

The World Bank has published an independent group evaluation of the World Bank’s contribution to Adaptive Social Protection for Effective Crisis Response. The purpose of the evaluation is twofold: (i)… Read more

Designing Out the Most Severe Forms of Hardship in Local Areas

New research from the New Local and Joseph Rowntree Foundation captures how local public services, voluntary and community organisations, community groups and other partners are working tenaciously and creatively to… Read more

Global polycrisis: The causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement

Abstract: Multiple global crises—including the pandemic, climate change, and Russia’s war on Ukraine—have recently linked together in ways that are significant in scope, devastating in effect, but poorly understood. A… Read more

UCL Humanitarian Summit 2023: Doing even more with even less?

UCL Humanitarian Summit 2023: Doing even more with even less?   Humanitarians have been exhorted to ‘do more with less’ for many years in the face of rising need and… Read more

Toward a framework for systemic multi-hazard and multi-risk assessment and management

Abstract: In our increasingly interconnected world, natural hazards and their impacts spread across geographical, administrative, and sectoral boundaries. Owing to the interrelationships between multi-hazards and socio-economic dimensions, the impacts of these… Read more

Evidence of positive progress on disaster risk reduction in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus: Thematic report to inform the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework

This report contributes to deepening our collective understanding of the potential role of disaster risk reduction within the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus; a gap identified as part of the consultative processes… Read more

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030: Reflections and insights from the global engineering community

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030: Reflections and insights from the Global Engineering Community. The UNDRR’s Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction is undergoing a formal mid-term review… Read more