Crisis Prevention and Recovery

Key Reports

Issue Brief: Cluster Munitions 24 May 2013
Protecting Development From Disasters: UNDP's Support to the Hyogo Framework for Action 15 May 2013

Summary - Lessons Learned Review of UN Support to Core Public Administration Functions in the Immediate Aftermath of Conflict 17 May 2013
A Comparative Review of Country-Level and Regional Disaster Loss and Damage Databases 14 May 2013

Fast Facts and Results

Fast Facts: Livelihoods and Economic Recovery 23 May 2013

Fast Facts: Mine Action 04 Apr 2013

Fast Facts: Gender in Crisis Countries 08 Mar 2013

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Further Publications

Signature Product: Guidance Note on Emergency Employment

Focussing on urgent post-crisis assistance, this guidance note provides practical advice to United NationsDevelopment Programme (UNDP) Country Offices (COs) on how to plan, design and implement a post-crisis emergency employment and enterprise recovery project that supports governments and more

Statebuilding: Concepts and operational implications in two fragile states: Sierra Leone and Liberia

This paper provides a distilled summary of the concepts shaping the discourse around state-building in fragile, conflict-affected situations, and explores some of the operational implications for international development practitioners working in these settings, drawing on experience from Liberia more

Supporting Capacity Development in Conflict and Fragile Contexts

The international development community is converging on a clear consensus that countries in persistently fragile contexts, particularly affected by conflict, present deeply complex challenges with capacity development efforts. These challenges warrant priority focus on the international more

UNDP in Early Recovery

Early recovery is a vital element of an effective humanitarian crisis response as a foundation for building resilience in post-crisis settings. Just as emergency relief activities are crucial to saving lives by responding to the most urgent human needs, integrating an early recovery approach within more

Further Resources

Elections and Conflict Prevention Guide

This Guide to Analysis, Planning, and Programming provides readers with practical options and tools for programming design, early warning and conflict tracking. Drawing on seven country case studies (Bangladesh, Ghana, Guyana, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria and Sierra Leone), it presents lessons learned More

Empowering Lives, Building Resilience

This publication features success stories from countries where UNDP support has resulted in transformative changes, including by fostering the growth of institutional and human capacities. To qualify as a transformational success, a story needed to demonstrate tangible and sustainable More

Europe and CIS Regional Human Development Report 2008

The human cost of social exclusion The report draws on data from an innovative six-country research study conducted by UNDP together with Oxford University researchers and local social research institutes and organisations of people living with HIV that looked at exclusion in the health, More

Executive Summary Public Administration

For over 50 years, the United Nations has supported public administration in developing countries. From helping newly independent countries in Africa and Asia to build essential public institutions in the 1950s and 60s, to running transitional administrations in Kosovo and East Timor, the United More

Experiences from the Field: UNDP-CSO Partnerships for Conflict Prevention

The intention of this report is to highlight innovative partnerships between UNDP and CSOs. It provides an overview ofwide-ranging partnerships with civil society at the national, regional and global levels. More

BCPR Annual Report 2011

Preventing Crisis, Enabling Recovery

Conflicts and disasters pose ominous threats to development. That is why building resilience to such threats is at the very heart of UNDP’s development efforts.

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The Sustainable Future We Want

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