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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29 January 2018

Building back better: a resilient Caribbean after the 2017 hurricanes

This briefing paper highlights how lessons from history and past recovery can inform decisions around 'building back better' after hurricanes Irma and Maria.

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26 January 2018

The impact of the earthquake, and relief and recovery programs on Haitian LGBT people

This briefing paper offers a lens through which the earthquake relief and recovery efforts can be viewed in the context of the protection, enjoyment, and promotion of the human rights of LGBT people. By also considering the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the

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25 January 2018

Recipe for disaster: Building policy on shaky ground

This report tallies the successes and failures of the recovery effort after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand, with the aim of improving future preparedness and recovery initiatives. It provides a number of policy recommendations for disaster preparedness and post-disaster response.