Recovery, renewal, resilience developing guidance for local resilience

In January 2021, researchers from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute joined colleagues from Alliance Manchester Business School to launch the 'Recovery, renewal, resilience: Developing guidance for local resilience' project.

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The project takes a systems approach to Recovery and Renewal from COVID-19 to build Resilience and will develop a new framework which supports Resilience partners as they design Recovery Strategies that will reinstate local preparedness for future emergencies. The framework also supports those who design Renewal Initiatives that strive to deliver major transformations of local Resilience.

The framework is being developed through extensive partnership working with local governments and has led to an international standard (ISO 22393) on Recovery and Renewal for Resilience. Our framework, partnership working, and ISO 22393 aim to make a difference in the aftermath of COVID-19.

Since April 2020, researchers from both HCRI and AMBS have been working together on ‘the Manchester Briefing on COVID-19’, a fortnightly document that brings together international lessons which may prompt thinking on Recovery and Renewal from COVID-19.

The Manchester Briefing is distributed to over 50,000 through a network of partners and is core to our engagement with the Resilient Cities Network which disseminates it to its 4,000 cities.

This research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), as part of UK Research and Innovation’s rapid response to COVID-19 (Project number: ES/V015346/1), by The University of Manchester, and partners.

Project objectives

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Concentrating on local government, the project develops a new framework to design and implement transactional Recovery Strategies that prepare for future emergencies and ambitious Renewal Initiatives that facilitate major transformation of local Resilience. The framework will:

  • Take a whole system approach to Recovery and Renewal (from community to national)
  • Explore how to manage the changes in people, places and processes that is needed
  • Address short-term, transactional Recovery as well as longer-term, transformational Renewal
  • Complement existing guidance and Resilience standards and lead to an international standard (ISO22393: Guidelines for planning Recovery and Renewal).

Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitment

The project has recently been recognised by UNDRR (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction), joining the global Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments initiative for disaster risk reduction. The framework provides specific encouragement to academic, scientific, and research entities in regards to their contribution to disaster risk reduction.

Contact

For further information on the project, please email recoveryproject@manchester.ac.uk.