Recovery Planning

This report provides a meta-analysis to synthesise insights from the tsunami recovery literature on the key factors contributing to vulnerability to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and to emerging vulnerabilities related to post-disaster recovery.

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.

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.

The project “Making Aceh Safer Through Disaster Risk Reduction In Development (DRR-A)” is designed to make DRR a normal part of the development process established in core functions of Aceh’s local government and their public and private partners.

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

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

This report is a collection of the study group seminar proceedings and interviews conducted with disaster recovery experts, accompanied with analysis and reference materials towards identifying an assessment methodology for recovery community development.

In this publication the Government of Tamil Nadu gives details regarding rehabilitation and the reconstruction programmes undertaken to revive coastal communities affected by the Tsunami in 2004.

This assessment provides estimates of the impacts of floods and landslides caused by heavy rain in El Salvador in 2009, and the estimated costs of reconstruction and recovery.

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.