International Recovery Platform

The report explores New Orleans' complex recovery after Hurricane Katrina, highlighting the tension between rapid reconstruction and long-term betterment, and the potential for broader reforms to influence the city's future trajectory.

The Master Plan for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation establishes structural and non-structural intervention strategies to reduce vulnerability to disasters and create conditions for readiness and response in cases of emergency.

Cash for Recovery looks at the feasibility of cash-based responses in post-disaster situations. It is an in-depth study of a scheme in Sri Lanka designed to meet the needs of extremely poor and labour-scarce households.