Guidance for Disaster Recovery

The International Recovery Platform (IRP) provides a collection of comprehensive guidance for disaster recovery to help countries and communities develop effective recovery plans and strategies. These guidelines are designed to ensure that recovery efforts are sustainable, resilient, and inclusive.

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Guidance documents from IRP Steering Committee members.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 February 2022

Sectoral recovery capacity assessment- a methodological approach for recovery readiness in the Caribbean and beyond

This document summarizes the Sectoral Recovery Capacity Assessment, a methodological approach to determine and analyze the capacity of key sectors to implement resilient and inclusive recovery projects in a timely, efficient, and effective manner.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2021

Employment, livelihoods and social protection: guide for recovery implementation

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. 

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2021

Agriculture guide for recovery implementation

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.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2021

Handbook on Owner- Driven Housing Reconstruction

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.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2021

Handbook on recovery institutions: a guidebook for recovery practitioners

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.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2020

Disability inclusive disaster recovery: Guidance note

This Guidance Note provides action-oriented guidance for government officials and decision-makers with responsibility for post-disaster recovery and reconstruction and will enable the development of disability-inclusive planning and programming.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2020

Disaster recovery guidance series: Private sector participation in disaster recovery and mitigation

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.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2020

Disaster recovery guidance series: social protection and disaster recovery

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.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

30 July 2022

Thurston Region Disaster Recovery Framework

The purpose of the Thurston Region Disaster Recovery Framework (TRDRF) is to guide communities in Thurston County (Washington, USA) through a joint, focused, systematic, timely, and effective recovery from a disaster.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

30 May 2022

Urban Recovery Framework: An enabling institutional and policy framework to support resilient urban recovery at scale and the renewal of the social contract in urban crisis contexts

This is the Urban Recovery Framework that aims to create an enabling environment for more effective recovery in urban areas, affected by natural or man-made crises, including conflict.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 February 2022

Sectoral recovery capacity assessment- a methodological approach for recovery readiness in the Caribbean and beyond

This document summarizes the Sectoral Recovery Capacity Assessment, a methodological approach to determine and analyze the capacity of key sectors to implement resilient and inclusive recovery projects in a timely, efficient, and effective manner.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2022

Ready to Rebuild: Disaster Rehabilitation and Recovery Planning Guide Workbook - Philippines

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

Documents and publications

Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2021

Employment, livelihoods and social protection: guide for recovery implementation

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. 

Documents and publications

Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2021

Agriculture guide for recovery implementation

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.

Documents and publications

Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2021

Handbook on Owner- Driven Housing Reconstruction

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.

Documents and publications

Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2021

Handbook on recovery institutions: a guidebook for recovery practitioners

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.