Abstract
Shock events uncover deficits in social cohesion and exacerbate existing social inequalities at the household, community, local, regional, and national levels. National and regional government recovery planning requires careful stakeholder engagement that centers on marginalized people, particularly women and marginalized community leaders. The aim of this rapid scoping review was to inform the United Nations Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery, based on Pillar 5 of the United Nations Framework for the Immediate Socioeconomic Response to COVID-19: Social Cohesion and Community Resilience. We present a summary of key concepts across the literature that helped situate this review. The results include a description of the state of the science and a review of themes identified as being crucial to sustainable and equitable recovery planning by the United Nations. The role of social cohesion during a disaster, particularly its importance for upstream planning and relationship building before a disaster occurs, is not well understood and is a promising area of future research. Understanding the applicability of social cohesion measurement methodologies and outcomes across different communities and geographies, as well as the development of new and relevant instruments and techniques, is urgently needed in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Highlights
Social Cohesion and Disaster RecoveryShock events, whether natural disasters, financial crises, pandemics, or armed conflicts, have lasting social, political, and economic effects on societies and the health of societies
Social cohesion is a critical resource for disaster recovery planning and an important component of the predisaster, acute, postdisaster, and recovery phases.[1]
Different types of shock events co-occur around the world, and the consequences and subsequent opportunities for recovery tend to be inequitably distributed across populations. Both social cohesion and community resilience provide opportunities before a disaster occurs, during the acute phase, and in recovery planning to identify and address inequalities, and they are important for inclusive recovery strategies that support the needs of all in the community
Summary
Social Cohesion and Disaster RecoveryShock events, whether natural disasters, financial crises, pandemics, or armed conflicts, have lasting social, political, and economic effects on societies and the health of societies. Social cohesion is a critical resource for disaster recovery planning and an important component of the predisaster, acute, postdisaster, and recovery phases.[1] Different types of shock events co-occur around the world, and the consequences and subsequent opportunities for recovery tend to be inequitably distributed across populations. Both social cohesion and community resilience provide opportunities before a disaster occurs, during the acute phase, and in recovery planning to identify and address inequalities, and they are important for inclusive recovery strategies that support the needs of all in the community. The relationships among individuals and communities and their local, regional, and national levels of government are affected by social cohesion
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