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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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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    This Guidance Note aims to provide action-oriented guidance to local and national government officials and key decision makers who face post-disaster challenges and to assist them in incorporating gender-responsive recovery and reconstruction efforts.

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

    This guideline is the product of literature reviews, discussions and contributions from diverse stakeholders, as well as UNDRR-nominated experts appointed specifically for the development of this guideline.

    United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
    Documents and publications
    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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 (GFDRR)
    World Health Organization (WHO)
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    The materials contained in this supplementary document complement those found in the existing IRP Guidance Note on Recovery – Health.

    International Recovery Platform
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    This document attempts to fill knowledge gaps regarding the role of the private sector in disaster recovery and draws from the wider body of knowledge and from documented experiences of past and present disaster planning and recovery.

    International Recovery Platform
    ASEAN Disaster Recovery Reference Guide
    Documents and publications
    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    The ASEAN Disaster Recovery Reference Guide (the Guide) aims to help the ASEAN Member States prepare for recovery, and deliver timely, efficient and effective recovery programmes.

    Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
    A Guidance Note National Post-Disaster Recovery Planning and Coordination
    Documents and publications
    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    This Guidance Note provides practical advice to UNDP Country Offices on how to design and implement recovery initiatives that will strengthen government capacity to lead and manage national recovery efforts in the early, medium and long-term.

    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
    Guidance Note Community Infrastructure Rehabilitation- Crisis Prevention and Recovery
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance
    Publications

    This provides practical advice on how to plan, design and implement a short-term project that swiftly links governments and communities in the assessment, repair and reconstruction of essential community infrastructure.

    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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.’

    World Bank, the
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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 (UNDP)
    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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.

    World Bank, the
    Documents and publications
    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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.

    World Bank, the
    Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
    Documents and publications
    Disaster Recovery Guidance

    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.

    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
    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)