International Recovery Platform

This report is an account of four years of grassroots activism, from the aftermath of Japan’s 3/11 earthquake and tsunami to the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), held in March, 2015 in Sendai, a city severely damaged by 3/11. The report documents the efforts of activists from their initial direct help for the victims of 3/11, including addressing the acute and unnecessary suffering of women in the evacuation centers, to later focus on planning and reconstruction policy reform at all levels of government in Japan.

This white paper explores the lessons learned from Katrina and how the recovery in New Orleans inspired the creation of new methods of building resilience. The paper identifies a number of critical areas to keep stakeholders aligned, including

To promote women's participation in reconstruction, this book collects and summarizes cases that can be used as reference from the perspective of gender equality in reconstruction.