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Guidance for Disaster Recovery

The International Recovery Platform (IRP) provides a collection of comprehensive guidance for disaster recovery to help countries and communities develop effective recovery plans and strategies. These guidelines are designed to ensure that recovery efforts are sustainable, resilient, and inclusive.

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Guidance documents from IRP Steering Committee members.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

A resource on the role of technology in disaster recovery. This guidance note explores how digital tools, data, and innovation support recovery planning, assessments, and rebuilding efforts.

International Recovery Platform
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Disaster Recovery Guidance

The Build Back Better Sector Guides provide practical resources to support clients, partners, and staff of the Asian Development Bank to enhance the climate and disaster resilience of communities, infrastructure and systems.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Good Practices in Financing Recovery and Building Back Better
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Disaster Recovery Guidance

This recovery brief provides recovery practitioners with lessons and good practices on financing post-disaster recovery, recovery preparedness and building back better.

International Recovery Platform
Disaster Recovery Planning in Irrigation Sector- Standard Operating Procedures
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Disaster Recovery Guidance

This document recommends procedures for the disaster recovery of irrigation infrastructure, taking policy and institutional context and practices in Sri Lanka into account.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Disaster Recovery Guidance

This document outlines UNDP’s approach to private sector recovery and development in crisis and post-crisis settings

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Disaster Recovery Guidance

This guidance note presents UNDP's updated approach to livelihoods and economic recovery programming in Fragile and Post-Crisis/Transition Settings (FACTS).

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

This publication outlines why post-disaster needs assessments (PDNA) should provide comprehensive details of the economic and social impacts of disasters on countries to swiftly mobilize resources and support resilient recovery.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Toward More Gender-Inclusive Emergency Recovery Projects Responding to Natural Disasters : Sectoral Entry Points
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Disaster Recovery Guidance

The objective of this guidance note is to identify entry points for gender considerations in sectors typically financed by Emergency Recovery Projects.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

This guide outlines how private-public partnerships can support disaster restoration and long-term recovery through coordinated planning and resilience-building.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
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Disaster Recovery Guidance

A resource on the role of technology in disaster recovery. This guidance note explores how digital tools, data, and innovation support recovery planning, assessments, and rebuilding efforts.

International Recovery Platform
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Documents and publications
Disaster Recovery Guidance

The Build Back Better Sector Guides provide practical resources to support clients, partners, and staff of the Asian Development Bank to enhance the climate and disaster resilience of communities, infrastructure and systems.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Good Practices in Financing Recovery and Building Back Better
Documents and publications
Disaster Recovery Guidance

This recovery brief provides recovery practitioners with lessons and good practices on financing post-disaster recovery, recovery preparedness and building back better.

International Recovery Platform
Disaster Recovery Planning in Irrigation Sector- Standard Operating Procedures
Documents and publications
Disaster Recovery Guidance

This document recommends procedures for the disaster recovery of irrigation infrastructure, taking policy and institutional context and practices in Sri Lanka into account.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Disaster Recovery Guidance
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This report shares a process of social innovation undertaken to improve the financial recovery of low- and moderate-income (LMI) households from increasing climate disasters.

Environmental Defense Fund
Local Disaster Recovery  Plan: Planning Guide
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Disaster Recovery Guidance

The purpose of this Planning Guide is to provide the information and instruction needed for jurisdictions to adapt the Local Disaster Recovery Plan Template to achieve their community’s recovery goals and priorities.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

This document outlines UNDP’s approach to private sector recovery and development in crisis and post-crisis settings

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)