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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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    practical lessons for recovery from the covid-19 pandemic
    Documents and publications
    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

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

    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.

    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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.

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
    AXA Group
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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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    Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    This Guide is intended primarily for local and national government officials and key decision makers involved in disaster recovery planning and operations.

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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    This paper guides practitioners, particularly the World Bank and UNESCO teams operating on the ground, as well as authorities, planners, and international organizations to integrate culture in all phases of city reconstruction and recovery.

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    This guidance note is intended to provide action-oriented guidance to government officials facing post-disaster recovery challenges related to the transport sector.

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    International Recovery Platform
    Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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 (UNDP)
    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
    Handbook on Owner driven housing reconstruction
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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 (UNDP)
    Handbook on Recovery Institutions
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    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)
    Recovery Preparedness and Management   Director’s Guideline for Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance
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    This Director’s Guideline is a foundational document of New Zealand’s recovery framework and embed lessons from recoveries over the last ten years.

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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    The document outlines detailed specifications, methodologies, quality control requirements, and maintenance guidelines for rural road construction and flood-damaged road reconstruction.

    Government of Kerala
    Disability-inclusive Disaster Recovery
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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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    Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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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    Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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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    Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)