International Recovery Platform

This paper addresses multi-donor trust funds as important instruments for resource mobilization, policy dialogue, and risk and information management in order to enhance aid effectiveness by reducing transaction costs and by mitigating the high risk

This guideline illustrates how to derive financial needs for recovery and reconstruction, following a sector by sector damage and loss assessment. It also explains how to formulate a calendar of investments and identify distribution channels for funding.

Volume 2 guides the sectoral assessment team through the steps of conducting a Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA). It describes simplified procedures for estimating the value of destroyed physical assets and changes or losses in the flows in the economy.