International Recovery Platform

This document describes and evaluates the workings of Cordaid's Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction programme during and after the eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia in October and November 2010. Part two of two, it describes how the established

This paper advocates that an inclusive and participatory approach, People-Centred Reconstruction (PCR) should be at the heart of all approaches to housing and livelihoods after disasters.

The main goal of this text is to introduce the systems approach to disasters management community as an alternative approach that can provide support for interdisciplinary activities involved in the management of disasters. The systems approach draws on