Disaster Recovery Guidance

The Build Back Better Sector Guides provide practical resources to support clients, partners, and staff of the Asian Development Bank to enhance the climate and disaster resilience of communities, infrastructure and systems.

This Local Government Guide to Recovery is an attempt by those most affected by recent events in Colorado to pass along valuable lessons to others that may one day face the same challenges.

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.

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.

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.

This guide provides a set of local economy recovery guidelines that are designed to stimulate employment creation and facilitate reintegration in post-conflict societies.

This research project investigated the issues of sheltering after a disaster and published a series of practical guidelines for assisting groups that included UN agencies, governments and NGO’s in 1982.

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.

The purpose of the Thurston Region Disaster Recovery Framework (TRDRF) is to guide communities in Thurston County (Washington, USA) through a joint, focused, systematic, timely, and effective recovery from a disaster.

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.