Transitioning to early recovery - How to move from humanitarian response to early recovery?

Background

With the increase in natural disasters, there has been recognition that anticipating and mitigating the likely risk of disasters not only saves lives but also the investment incurred on relief and recovery initiatives. Therefore, building the capacity of NGOs to implement Early Recovery programs in a professional manner will enable respective NGO to participate in the local development initiatives as real stakeholders and in a more meaningful manner.

Training themes

• Early Recovery – key concepts
• Reasons and expectations from NGOs partnerships
• Lessons Learnt and best practices of Early Recovery implementation through NGOs
• Key elements of an ideal Early Recovery project
- Strong proposal – how?
- Mainstream disaster risk reduction, gender, youth and disability
- Institutional resilience capacity through good governance
- Accountability and efficiency
- Monitoring for results
- Knowledge generation
• Resource Material