International Recovery Platform

International Recovery Forum 2024

Accelerating Progress with Building Back Better: Resilient Recovery in the Face of Rising Climate Risks

24-25 January 2024 | Kobe, Japan and Online

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23 -24 May 2022, BALI

The Fifth Edition of the World Reconstruction Conference (WRC5)

Reconstructing for a sustainable future: Building resilience through recovery in a COVID-19 Transformed World

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2015

UK recovery handbook for biological incidents

This handbook provides a framework to identify an effective recovery strategy following a biological incident, as well as a compendium of practical, evidence-based recovery options to assist with the remediation of environmental biological contamination.

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IRP Herald

1 January 2015

IRP Herald Vol 8: IRP’s International Recovery Forum 2015 “Sending the Message of Build Back Better”

IRP Herald Volume 8 is the knowledge report for the International Recovery Forum 2015.

Documents and publications

30 December 2014

Tsunami ten years on, stories of change: 2004–2014 - Community perceptions of the Indian Ocean tsunami response and recovery

The objective of this study is to analyse the strengths, weaknesses, sustainability and impact of the 26th of December 2004 tsunami response in 2 countries, Sri Lanka and Indonesia (Aceh Province). Cutting across these themes is an assessment of whether communities are now better prepared to respond to and cope with disaster.