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Disaster Recovery Frameworks

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Disaster recovery frameworks enable countries to drive a process forward that unites all government, private sector, donors, development partners, and community efforts with a focus on building back stronger, faster and more inclusively over the short, medium to long term timeframes of recovery. The DRF helps in articulating a vision for recovery; defining a strategy; prioritizing actions; fine-tuning planning; and providing guidance on financing, implementing, and monitoring the recovery. Depending on the scale of recovery required, the framework should be developed within a month or max 45 days after a disaster, or ideally before a disaster occurs.

Expected outcomes of implementing recovery frameworks are:

  1. Informed institutional and policy-setting for recovery.
  2. Prioritization and programming based on an inclusive, transparent process that ensures participation of all stakeholders and uses national and international good practices.
  3. Effective coordination among all parties during the recovery and reconstruction processes.
  4. Comprehensive framework for recovery financing.
  5. Improved implementation and monitoring and evaluation systems for recovery programs.

DRF guidance and frameworks

Documents and publications

Nepal earthquake 2015: Post disaster recovery framework

This framework document encapsulates the vision and strategic objectives that guide recovery in post-earthquake Nepal. It also includes the policy and institutional frameworks for recovery and reconstruction and outlines implementation arrangements, projected financial requirements and immediate next steps necessary for recovery.
Documents and publications

2015 Earthquake recovery plan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

This plan was prepared in the aftermath of the Oct 26, 2015 earthquake which caused human losses and extensive damages to public infrastructure, houses and other buildings in various areas of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The document contains a detailed damage assessment and lists priority interventions in areas of rehabilitation of physical infrastructure, housing, reactivation of local economy, and disaster risk reduction and environment recovery strategies. The plan also proposes management mechanisms for recovery and reconstruction.
Documents and publications

Guide to developing disaster recovery frameworks: Sendai Conference version

This guide provides the essential information to assist policy makers and other stakeholders in formulating a framework for the medium- to long-term post-disaster recovery.
Malawi National Disaster Recovery Framework Report 2015. Volume 1
Documents and publications

National Disaster Recovery Framework: Malawi. Volume I

This Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) is conducted by the Government of Malawi with technical and financial support from the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank (WB) following the floods in 2015.
City of Seattle Disaster Recovery Framework
Documents and publications

City of Seattle Disaster Recovery Framework

This Framework guides recovery activities both pre-event and post-event and describes the potential roles and responsibilities of City agencies, as well as community players, in recovering Seattle to a fully functioning state following a disaster.
Documents and publications

United States of America: PlaNYC - a stronger, more resilient New York

A comprehensive plan that contains actionable recommendations both for rebuilding the communities impacted by Sandy and increasing the resilience of infrastructure and buildings citywide.
Documents and publications

Hurricane Sandy rebuilding strategy: stronger communities, a resilient region

This document presents the policy recommendations of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force for helping the rebuilding of the region affected by the 2011 super-storm.
Documents and publications

Committee for policy planning on disaster management: toward the reconstruction for sound and unwavering Japan

This final report provides the direction of Japan’s disaster management for the future based on the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake to fulfill the promises in the future.
Pakistan Floods 2011 Early Recovery Framework
Documents and publications

Pakistan floods 2011 early recovery framework

The Early Recovery Framework provides the foundation and structure for the early recovery response supporting the flood-affected people of Sindh and Balochistan following the floods of 2011.
Documents and publications

Japan: Sendai City earthquake disaster reconstruction plan, digest version

This plan identifies systematic measures that the municipal government and citizens should jointly implement in an organized manner for the earliest possible restoration and recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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