International Recovery Platform

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 95, August 2013:

This issue covers articles related to disaster risk reduction and the floods in Uttarakhand. It is intended to national authorities and international organizations such as World Bank, Asian Development

The guidelines cover coordination and strategic planning and implementation relevant to transitional settlement and reconstruction following all natural disasters.

This paper explores some of the issues highlighted by recent disaster responses in the Philippines, with a focus primarily on Tropical Storm Washi in 2011 and Typhoon Bopha in 2012. It assesses the gap between policy and practice and calls on local