Build Back Better

IRP provides recovery guidance and comprehensive library of recovery resources to support the practice of disaster recovery and building back better.
Guidance for Disaster Recovery
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COVID-19 Recovery Policy Brief
2020
This brief is offered to define the COVID-19 recovery context and to supplement existing guidance with key principles and practices to guide recovery planning.
International Recovery Platform
This is the cover of the publication.
2022
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
Office of Civil Defense (Philippines) National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council World Bank, the
Handbook on Owner driven housing reconstruction
2021
This Handbook serves to guide post-disaster housing reconstruction using an owner-driven housing reconstruction (ODHR) approach. It details the various processes, tasks and interventions involved in designing and managing ODHR programmes.
United Nations Development Programme
Handbook on Recovery Institutions
2021
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 Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery - UNDP
2021
The guide recommends the types of agriculture interventions to be implemented in the short-, medium- and long-term stages of recovery and reconstruction taking into consideration DRR and BBB aspects.
United Nations Development Programme United Nations Development Programme
2021
This guide is meant to be used after undertaking a PDNA exercise. It aligns with the PDNA Guidelines for the estimated effects and impacts of a disaster on the cross-cutting ELSP sector. 
International Labour Organization United Nations Development Programme United Nations Development Programme
2020
This compendium compiles good practices on post disaster recovery, to disseminate and highlight the work and recovery processes that are being carried out in different countries of the Africa, Asia, ECIS and LAC regions.
United Nations Development Programme United Nations Development Programme
2017
This Guidance Note for Post-Disaster Health Sector Recovery is intended to provide action-oriented guidance to local and central government health sector officials who face post-disaster challenges related to health sector recovery.
Pan American Health Organization International Recovery Platform Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the World Health Organisation Regional Office for the Americas
2020
This Guidance Note provides action-oriented guidance to local and national government officials, key decision-makers and other stakeholders on ways to encourage, enable and facilitate successful private sector participation in post-disaster recovery.
World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the
2020
This note highlights the critical contribution that social protection can make to a broader disaster recovery effort by providing assistance directly to disaster-affected households.
World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the
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practical lessons for recovery from the covid-19 pandemic
2020
This publication offers a set of guiding, action-oriented principles and practical cases to support recovering communities as they plan and implement recovery.
International Recovery Platform
COVID-19 Recovery Policy Brief
2020
This brief is offered to define the COVID-19 recovery context and to supplement existing guidance with key principles and practices to guide recovery planning.
International Recovery Platform
This is the cover of the publication.
2022
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
Office of Civil Defense (Philippines) National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council World Bank, the
predisaster recovery planning guide for tribal governments
2019
The Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning Guide for Tribal Governments provides a basic framework and guidance for tribal leadership and stakeholders as they plan for recovery.
Federal Emergency Management Agency
PDRP Guide State Govts
2016
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designed this planning guide to help States and territories prepare for recovery by developing pre-disaster recovery plans.
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Handbook on Owner driven housing reconstruction
2021
This Handbook serves to guide post-disaster housing reconstruction using an owner-driven housing reconstruction (ODHR) approach. It details the various processes, tasks and interventions involved in designing and managing ODHR programmes.
United Nations Development Programme
Handbook on Recovery Institutions
2021
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 Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery - UNDP
2021
The guide recommends the types of agriculture interventions to be implemented in the short-, medium- and long-term stages of recovery and reconstruction taking into consideration DRR and BBB aspects.
United Nations Development Programme United Nations Development Programme
2021
This guide is meant to be used after undertaking a PDNA exercise. It aligns with the PDNA Guidelines for the estimated effects and impacts of a disaster on the cross-cutting ELSP sector. 
International Labour Organization United Nations Development Programme United Nations Development Programme
2020
This compendium compiles good practices on post disaster recovery, to disseminate and highlight the work and recovery processes that are being carried out in different countries of the Africa, Asia, ECIS and LAC regions.
United Nations Development Programme United Nations Development Programme