International Recovery Platform

This brief presents UNDP work with its partners on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and recovery in more than 100 countries, promoting the importance of investing in DRR and effective disaster recovery in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

This brief highlights the activities of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Haiti. The WFP has moved beyond the initial emergency phase to a long-term food security strategy and has launched a programme to support reconstruction and disaster

This publication highlights lessons learnt, asserting that awareness and preparedness enabled flood prone communities in Gaibandha, Bogra and Srajgong districts of Bangladesh to cope with and recover from the floods of 2007. Adjacent communities, who were