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Handbook on Recovery Institutions
Documents and publications
Disaster Recovery Guidance

This guidebook is a planning tool to design, manage and assess recovery following a disaster. It describes institutional options, successful characteristics and management lessons based on real-world experience with disaster recovery operations.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Promoting Large Cardamom Cultivation in Post-Earthquake Nepal
Documents and publications
Case Study
Publications

The document outlines the promotion of large cardamom cultivation in post-earthquake Nepal, highlighting the involvement of women farmers, the challenges and the importance of collaboration with local municipalities and service providers.

Catholic Relief Services
Mozambique Recovery Facility Progress Report
Documents and publications
Publications

The Mozambique Recovery Facility is a five-year program led by UNDP in collaboration with the Government of Mozambique, aims to accelerate recovery and enhance resilience following the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai and Cyclone Kenneth.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Documents and publications
Reports and analysis

This study on field observation-based interpretations will help academicians, researchers and field engineers to plan future initiatives for reconstruction planning and implementation in line with future disaster risk reduction.

Current Science
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Documents and publications
DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The purpose of this plan is to provide guidance to officials in Sacramento County on how to organize and manage the short-and long-term recovery processes to assist the county in becoming more resilient to the impacts from future disasters.

Sacramento County (USA)
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Documents and publications
Case Study

This paper examines how Kerala financed recovery after the 2018 floods, outlining statutory provisions, fiscal challenges, and the mix of public, private, and external mechanisms used to support reconstruction.

National Disaster Management Authority (India)
Documents and publications
Case Study

In October 2019, Typhoon Hagibis struck wide areas of Japan, including the Abukuma River Basin and caused a serious flood disaster.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Documents and publications

This article examines the failures of top-down reconstruction after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, revealing how command-and-control approaches inhibited resilience and marginalized local communities from meaningful participation in rebuilding efforts​.

University of Groningen
The Path to Housing Recovery Nepal Earthquake 2015: Housing Reconstruction
Documents and publications
Publications

This document presents a timeline of key achievements and activities so far in the housing recovery, as well as including a pre-earthquake section in an attempt to highlight the decades of work on earthquake preparedness and response in Nepal.

Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform
Documents and publications

This article focuses on one aspect of this -- the efforts that are being made to bring about deeper transformative changes that aim to make the region in and around Fukushima both more sustainable and resilient.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)