This publication, stemming from the WHO Small Countries Initiative, delves into the concept of resilience in the context of health, focusing on individual, community, and system levels. By analyzing case studies from Iceland, Malta, and San Marino, it highlights measures taken to enhance resilience in various scenarios, including supporting victims of child abuse, addressing health workforce brain drain, and integrating people with disabilities into society. The insights reveal the interconnectedness of resilience across different levels.

This report focuses on resilience; setting out the types of services, resources and infrastructure that need to be in place locally to support resilient communities, helping people to ‘feel good and function well’. 

This report makes a valuable contribution to efforts to improve health system resilience. The authors have examined country experiences during COVID-19 and earlier disease outbreaks and explored previous work to elaborate the key features of resilient health systems and the health sector investments that enable them. The report presents a unique but simple health system resilience framework, and outlines a roadmap for countries to operationalize resilience in the form of integrated investments that promote progress toward the International Health Regulations (IHR) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

They help to understand how company participation in apprenticeship changes in times of crisis and to inform responses that help apprenticeships adapt and overcome fluctuations. At the same time, they give examples of how national stakeholders can share a common vision and purpose for apprenticeships, allowing their adaptation to emerging needs without compromising their essential features as a distinct type of training. Eventually, they show the links between the two topics: apprenticeships that are built on a common vision (and shared efforts and responsibilities) are also built to last, to withstand times of crisis

The Guidebook describes the key steps in the planning process, along with important considerations in each step. It also presents best practices to inspire cities and regions and help them better design actions to take forward in the decarbonisation process.

How important is cybersecurity for online trust? And how can trust in cybersecurity be achieved? We shall briefly outline the gist of many philosophical, psychological and sociological views on trust. Then, we shall explore its implications for cybersecurity.

This policy brief explores the interconnection between security and data protection in the framework of European data protection

This policy brief explores link between cybersecurity and the fundamental rights in a comprehensive approach.  

The document explores the challenge of building coherent EU cybersecurity policies. It starts from the definition of cybersecurity to explore the EU cooperation at national and international level in policy definition. 

This report recommends how European stakeholders, particularly
the EU, should respond across policy domains, scales and systems. To meet the cascading climate risk challenge, a stepwise approach to implementing the recommendations is needed. This summary suggests how this might proceed, to enable European institutions and policymakers to hardwire consideration of cascading climate risks into policies and processes. It moves from the level of individual understanding, through institutional change, to systemic transformations.

This paperconsiders why effective climate risk assessment should matter for
financial institutions. We present different approaches to measuring climate
risk used by some European financial institutions with a public mandate,
including a multilateral development bank (MDB) - the European Investment
Bank (EIB), development financial institutions (DFIs) - the British International
Investment (BII) and the Dutch entrepreneur development bank (FMO), national
promotional and development banks - the German Kreditanstalt für
Wiederaufbau (KfW) and Italian Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP); and export
credit agencies - the Atradius Dutch State Business (Atradius DSB), and
French Bpifrance. These institutions have adopted climate, and often explicit
ESG approaches and climate risk assessments. Increasing efforts are also
dedicated to further improving their approaches. Yet, they encounter several
difficulties and limitations in their attempt to assess climate risks.

this paper examines the interaction between biophysical climate
impacts, migration, displacement and (in)security. It aims to go beyond the prevailing narratives to better understand the different ways in which mobility can serve as an adaptive strategy to climate- and conflict-related risks and vulnerabilities. It also aims to assess how effective mobility is as an adaptation strategy and will continue to be in light of other stresses, including the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report highlights FAO's reliance on cash and vouchers as vital tools in crisis response, aiding farmers and fishers whose assets are compromised. These cash-based transfers not only provide immediate relief but also build resilience against future challenges. Serving as a bridge from emergency aid to sustainable development, they integrate with social protection systems designed for crisis mitigation. FAO emphasizes these methods, especially during emergencies, as they empower recipients to address their specific needs in local markets.

Based on a comparative analysis this report suggests five recommendations for improve policy progress.

The report documents the authorities’ adaptive response and the challenges encountered by both civil society and the respective authorities in taking resilient action. It draws on secondary documents and online resources, which are supplemented with interviews with city authorities and experts.

Incorporating climate action into the broader sustainable development agenda is an important issue for policy makers in the G20 and beyond, encompassing objectives such as energy poverty eradication, increased well-being and welfare, air quality improvement, conserving biodiversity and ensuring food and water availability. However, there have been relatively few scientific analyses that have explored the complex interplay between climate action and development while simultaneously taking both global and national perspectives. The CD-LINKS project contributed to filling these critical knowledge gaps by exploring the complex interplay between climate action and development through both global and national perspectives, providing information to aid the design of complementary climate-development policies.

The Social Protection and Jobs (SPJ) Compass puts at its heart the vision of universal social protection. It recognizes that the progressive realization of universal social protection (USP), which ensures access to social protection for all whenever and however they need it, is critical for effectively reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Countries across the globe are increasingly using this vision to guide their policy. Social protection can be defined as policies and programs that help individuals and societies to manage risk and volatility, protect them from poverty and inequality, and help them to access economic opportunity. Social protection aims to achieve this by increasing people’s resilience, equity, and opportunity, the three goals of social protection, by means of a range of instruments in the social insurance, labor and economic inclusion, and social assistance and care domains.

This document outlines five distinct industry-agnostic resilience profiles: the collaborator, the planner, the enhancer, the adapter and the provider. Each of these profiles reflects distinct priorities and leadership approaches to starting and navigating a resiliency journey, including links to playbooks with actionable strategies.

The proposals focus on improving spatial planning and the development of areas, especially in mountainous and remote regions, with the goal of revitalization and ensuring quality of life. They aim to balance development between urban and rural areas, by supporting strategies for agricultural production, enhancing remote work, and applying sustainable construction.

The proposals focus on migration management and the social integration of migrants. They include specific actions and strategies to improve the living conditions of migrants, their integration into society and the economy, as well as the use of modern technologies for their integration. Strengthening accommodation infrastructure, integrating migrants into the labour market, utilizing ICT for their integration, and aligning with European and international policies make up a programme that not only addresses the immediate need for accommodation but promotes sustainable and fair integration.