International Recovery Platform

Consise set of guidelines detailing the reconstruction of housing affected by 2004 Indian Ocean and Tsunami. Main sections include: disaster and effects, construction and planning aspects for resistance against disasters, retrofitting of exiting buildings, repairs and strengthening of buildings.

This publication is to help a community make risk-based choices to address vulnerabilities, mitigate hazards and prepare for response to and recovery from hazard events. Risk-based means based on informed choices of alternate unwanted outcomes. In other

This briefing paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learned from relief responses to past earthquakes. The main intended audiences are operational decision-makers and relief programme managers working in the South Asia earthquake relief operation.