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

6 January 2010

Safer homes, stronger communities: a handbook for reconstructing after natural disasters

This handbook was developed to assist policy makers and project managers engaged principally in large-scale post-disaster reconstruction programs make decisions about how to reconstruct housing and communities.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2010

Guidance note on recovery: telling live lessons

This guidance note shares 'live lessons' learned - told through first-person stories - that contribute to disaster preparedness, mitigation, and a recovery that builds back better.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2010

Guidance note on recovery: health

This publication draws from documented experiences of past and present recovery efforts in health, collected through a desk review and consultations with relevant experts.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2010

Guidance note on recovery: psychosocial

This publication draws from documented experiences of past and present psychosocial recovery efforts, collected through a desk review and consultations with relevant experts.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

30 September 2007

People’s Process in Post-disaster and Post-Conflict Recovery and Reconstruction

This guide presents a community-centered framework for recovery and reconstruction after disasters and conflicts, advocating for the involvement of affected populations in a seamless transition from emergency response to sustainable recovery efforts.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

Publications

17 September 2015

Shelter After Disaster (second edition)

This edition adds new insights to the original text of the 1982 Guidelines , provides a more updated format and gives updated resources and reflects current thinking within the shelter sector.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2015

UK recovery handbook for biological incidents

This handbook provides a framework to identify an effective recovery strategy following a biological incident, as well as a compendium of practical, evidence-based recovery options to assist with the remediation of environmental biological contamination.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

10 September 2014

Guide to developing disaster recovery frameworks: World Reconstruction Conference version

This guide lays out processes and good practices for developing disaster recovery frameworks to assist governments in detailed recovery planning at the inter-sectoral and programmatic levels.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

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Tools and guidelines

30 October 2013

Guidance Note Debris Management and Recovery - Crisis Prevention

This guidance note provides practical advice on how to plan, design and implement a project that swiftly links governments and communities in the assessment, clearance, recycling and management of debris following a significant national catastrophe.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

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Tools and guidelines

30 January 2013

Guidance Note Emergency Employment and Enterprise Recovery- Crisis Prevention and Recovery

This guidance note provides practical advice on how to plan, design and implement a post-crisis emergency employment and enterprise recovery project that supports governments and communities following a significant national catastrophe.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

30 April 2012

Post-Disaster Community Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Guidelines

The aim of these guidelines is to promote a change in the approach to community infrastructure, informed by emerging practices, capitalizing on the experiences and expertise in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and other recent events.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

1 January 2012

Guidance note on recovery: pre-disaster recovery planning

This guidance note presents a series of steps to initiate and sustain Pre Disaster Recovery Planning (PDRP) in order to ensure that communities "build back better" following a natural disaster.

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Disaster Recovery Guidance

26 November 2010

Guidance note on recovery: gender

This publication is an initial step in documenting, collecting and sharing disaster recovery experiences and lessons, which also integrate disaster reduction initiatives aimed at reducing the womens' vulnerability.