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 January 2020

Global compendium of good practices on post-disaster recovery

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.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2020

Disaster risk management in the CURE framework: Technical note

The CURE Framework draws from existing frameworks and tools for reconstruction and recovery in urban settings. It seeks to knit together people-centered and place-based approaches to produce integrated policies that share a common cultural thread.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2020

Guidelines for community participation in disaster recovery

This guide informs Governments, United Nations agencies, International NGO's, the Private Sector and other stakeholders on how to engage communities in every step of the recovery process.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2020

Practical lessons for recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic: principles for recovery

This publication offers a set of guiding, action-oriented principles and practical cases to support recovering communities as they plan and implement recovery.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2020

COVID-19 Recovery Policy Brief

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.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2020

Compendium of good practice on post disaster recovery in the Latin America and Caribbean Region

This compendium presents good practices in post-disaster recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean in order to spread and highlight the work and recovery processes taking place in different countries of the region.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

13 May 2019

Supporting safer housing reconstruction after disasters: Planning and implementing technical assistance at scale

This document is aimed at decision makers to increase the level of knowledge about technical assistance and operationalise its implementation, ensuring the reconstruction of housing in disaster-affected communities results in sustainably safer housing.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

8 January 2019

Disaster recovery guidance series: education sector recovery

This note provides practical guidance to national governments about key priorities for recovery in the education sector following a major disaster or crisis.

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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

1 January 2020

Overall operational guidelines for the culture in city reconstruction and recovery (CURE) framework: Technical note

The Technical Note on Overall Operational Guidance provides further elaboration on the guidance and tools introduced in chapter three of the CURE position paper, ‘Implementing the CURE Framework.’

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2020

Global compendium of good practices on post-disaster recovery

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.

Documents and publications

Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2020

Peacebuilding and recovery in the culture in city reconstruction and recovery (CURE) framework: Technical notes

The CURE Framework draws from existing frameworks and tools for reconstruction and recovery in urban settings. It seeks to knit together people-centered and place-based approaches to produce integrated policies that share a common cultural thread.

Documents and publications

Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2020

Disaster risk management in the CURE framework: Technical note

The CURE Framework draws from existing frameworks and tools for reconstruction and recovery in urban settings. It seeks to knit together people-centered and place-based approaches to produce integrated policies that share a common cultural thread.

Documents and publications

Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2020

Guidelines for community participation in disaster recovery

This guide informs Governments, United Nations agencies, International NGO's, the Private Sector and other stakeholders on how to engage communities in every step of the recovery process.