International Recovery Platform

This paper attempts to summarize the current issues and problems in Afghanistan with specific focus on the disaster and development, and provides some examples of community-based initiatives, suitable to the local culture and tradition.

The Planning Guide provides the rehabilitation and recovery framework, the rehabilitation planning process and plan structure, institutional arrangements for plan coordination, implementation mechanisms, and proposed monitoring and evaluation arrangements

This research focuses on using flood damage reports in conjunction with contour maps, geographical information systems, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data, photographs, and spatial averaging to develop total (high) flood elevation data sets.