International Recovery Platform

This document describes the recovery strategies and projects implemented in the wake of two natural hazards in Ecuador: the prolonged eruption of the Tungurahua volcano; and the intense rainy season of the first half of 2008.

This guide addresses the absence of a risk reduction focus both in humanitarian aid and in the reconstruction processes and the related increase of the physical, social, economic, and environmental vulnerability of the population to new events.

This final report provides the direction of Japan’s disaster management for the future based on the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake to fulfill the promises in the future.