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Disaster Recovery Guidance

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

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
International Recovery Platform
Documents and publications

This resource handbook aims to help grassroots organizations monitor governmental security agencies and assesses role that civil society can play in overseeing the security sector in emergency states resulting from natural disasters or health epidemics.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Floods 2009 Burkina Faso Assessment of Damage Loss and Construction Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Needs
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This post-disaster needs assessment provides estimates of the damages and losses, and the costs for reconstruction and recovery following the 2009 floods in Burkina Faso. 

Burkina Faso - government
World Bank, the
United Nations - Headquarters
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL)
European Union
Floods 2009 Namibia Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA)
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) assesses damage and losses incurred as a result of 2009 floods, and provides an assessment of recovery and reconstruction options that could provide resilience to future events such as droughts and floods.

Namibia - government
World Bank, the
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
European Union
Typhoon Ketsana 2009 Lao PDR Damage Loss and Needs Assessment
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This PDNA addresses the damages and losses from the impacts of Typhoon Ketsana, and identifies resource needs in the medium and longer term to address the urgent requirements for recovery and restoration of the livelihoods of the affected population

Lao People's Democratic Republic - government
World Bank, the
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Australian Agency for International Development
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
Typhoon Ketsana 2009 Cambodia Post-Ketsana Disaster Needs Assessment Part I Main Report
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

The Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) evaluates the damages and losses from the impacts of Typhoon Ketsana, and addresses needs for recovery, resilient reconstruction and sustainable restoration of livelihoods of the affected population.

Cambodia - government
World Bank, the
United Nations - Headquarters
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
West Sumatra Earthquake 2009 Indonesia Damage Loss and Preliminary Needs Assessment
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report presents the assessment of the damage, losses and human recovery needs resulting from the earthquakes in West Sumatra and Jambi.

Indonesia - government
National Agency for Disaster Management (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana)
Documents and publications

This annual report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on data provided by a large number of international organizations within and outside the UN system. The aggregate figures in the report provide an overview of

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)
United Nations - Headquarters
Documents and publications

This document captures good practices from the Indonesian Red Cross (Palang Merah Indonesia/PMI) risk reduction projects.

It was compiled and shared with the national disaster response agency (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana/BNPB) as PMI’s

Indonesian Red Cross
Documents and publications

This document presents the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies plan for 2008-2009 to respond to the effects of disasters on a daily basis, in countries where the public infrastructures are weak or non-existent.

Under their humanitarian mandate

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)