Build Back Better
IRP provides recovery guidance and a comprehensive library of recovery resources to support the practice of disaster recovery and building back better.
IRP supports progress against Priority 4 of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response and to “Build Back Better” in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction.
Collections of practical guidance to support disaster recovery
View all guidanceComprehensive collection of guidance, PDNA reports, and other resources supporting post-disaster needs assessment
View all PDNAsResources to guide development of DRFs, and a library of published disaster recovery frameworks
View all frameworksInternational Recovery Platform’s full library of resources on disaster recovery and building back better
View all materialsCollections of resources offered by IRP’s Steering Committee Member agencies
View collectionsThemes in recovery
- Capacity Development
capability utilization, capacity assessment; capacity development; individual, community and institutional learning, training and development; institutional strengthening and development; functional capacities; technical capacities - Climate Change
adaptation planning, adaptation measures, loss and damage, adaptation benefits, adaptation costs, adaptive capacity, climate change adaptation, climate resilience, climate-proofing, climate risk management - Community based DRR
CBDRR, community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM), community vulnerability assessment, community disaster response preparedness, community risk mitigation, local capacity assessment, local risk mapping, participatory community risk assessment, indigenous knowledge, participatory, inclusive - Critical infrastructure
communications systems and/or networks, health facilities, 'lifelines', power and energy, emergency evacuation shelters, financial infrastructure, schools, elements of transportation systems, waste disposal, water supplies - Cultural Heritage
heritage conservation, traditional methods, traditional knowledge, traditional know-how, traditional housing, community resilience mechanisms, cultural properties, intangible heritage, immovable cultural property, historic buildings, historic urban areas, cultural landscapes, monuments, archaeological sites, vernacular architecture, risk assessment to heritage, collective memory and identity - Economics of DRR
disaster risk reduction funding, pre-disaster recovery planning, recovery financing, socio-economic impacts of disasters, post-disaster damage and needs assessment, financial effects of disasters, risk transfer mechanism, insurance, post-disaster short-term liquidity, cost-benefit analysis - Education & School Safety
education continuity, safe schools, school disaster management - Environment & Ecosystems
Ecosystems and environmental management, environmental impact assessment, Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM), land-use - Fragility and Conflict
humanitarian crisis, conflict, post-conflict, peacebuilding, violence, fragile and conflict affected states - Gender
gender mainstreaming, gendered vulnerability, gender-sensitive disaster risk management, gender-sensitive recovery
International Recovery Forum
Redesigning Systems for Resilience through Recovery: Assessing Progress and the Unfinished Agenda at the Midpoint of the Sendai Framework
Recovery Help Desk: A service of the IRP, responding to requests for support with building back better in recovery from disasters.
