Theme: Health (incl Covid-19)

Resilience of Local Communities: Lessons from COVID-19

This brief provides a first assessment on how 15 local communities in the Global South are building resilience in the face of COVID-19. We found that communities used many different coping strategies, spanning multiple social domains of resilience, when responding to a crisis.

Join us at the Gobeshona Global Conference!

The conference will take place from 18 - 24 January 2021.

D&C Days: Reshaping a Resilient Future in Response to COVID-19

Event Programme The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the vulnerability of our global society to systemic risks. Learning from this crisis is crucial, since it is a harbinger of a new global risk landscape where events such as pandemics, financial crashes and synchronized food shocks spread more quickly and widely than ever before. Critically, this new […]

Latin America Regional Resilience Dialogue

Building urban and rural resilience to mobilize efforts in Latin America to recover from the pandemic

R2Z: Race for Health Resilience

Race to Zero dialogue on climate and health, which examines how to achieve health adaptation and resilience for the most vulnerable countries and communities, with a specific emphasis on Small Island Developing States. With the participation of Gonzalo Muñoz, COP26 High-Level Climate Action Champion, Saima Wazed Hossain, Thematic Ambassador on Vulnerability to the Climate Vulnerable Forum, Hon Vainetutai […]

Women cooking together

Building Inclusive and Resilient Societies in Unpredictable Times

This article was originally published in Voices for a Living Planet, a special edition Living Planet Report 2020 by WWF.