Disaster Recovery Frameworks

woman involved in community meeting to discuss village reconstruction

Disaster recovery frameworks enable countries to drive a process forward that unites all government, private sector, donors, development partners, and community efforts with a focus on building back stronger, faster and more inclusively over the short, medium to long term timeframes of recovery. The DRF helps in articulating a vision for recovery; defining a strategy; prioritizing actions; fine-tuning planning; and providing guidance on financing, implementing, and monitoring the recovery. Depending on the scale of recovery required, the framework should be developed within a month or max 45 days after a disaster, or ideally before a disaster occurs.

Expected outcomes of implementing recovery frameworks are:

  1. Informed institutional and policy-setting for recovery.
  2. Prioritization and programming based on an inclusive, transparent process that ensures participation of all stakeholders and uses national and international good practices.
  3. Effective coordination among all parties during the recovery and reconstruction processes.
  4. Comprehensive framework for recovery financing.
  5. Improved implementation and monitoring and evaluation systems for recovery programs.

DRF guidance and frameworks

National Disaster Recovery Framework Strengthening Disaster Recovery for the Nation
Documents and publications
DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks
Policy type
National policies and plans

The National disaster recovery framework provides guidance that enables effective recovery support to disaster-impacted States, Tribes and local jurisdictions.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Iwate Prefecture Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Reconstruction Plan -Basic Reconstruction Plan
Documents and publications
DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The document is a blueprint for the reconstruction of Iwate Prefecture following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

岩手県 Iwate Prefectural Government
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Documents and publications
DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The Minnesota Disaster Recovery Assistance Framework is a resource document that provides assistance program information from state, federal, local, and voluntary agency resources following a disaster.

State of Minnesota, the
Drought Impact Assessment, Recovery and Mitigation Framework and Regional Project Design in Kurdistan Region (KR)
Documents and publications
DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

This impact assessment and recovery framework highlights challenges arising from drought in the Kurdistan Region, including land use conflict and advocates the importance of the integration of land and water policies into broader development plans.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Action Plan for National Recovery and Development of Haiti
Documents and publications
DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks
Policy type
National policies and plans

This document is a national recovery plan for the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, describing damage and losses, vision and action plans for reconstruction.

Haiti - government
Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning - A Guide for Florida Communities
Documents and publications
DRF Guidance

This Guide provides an accessible and practical method for developing a Plan referred to as the pre‐disaster period.

State of Florida, the
IOWA DISASTER RECOVERY FRAMEWORK
Documents and publications
DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

This Iowa Disaster Recovery Framework (IDRF) will provide a lasting, flexible structure and system to coordinate and manage recovery in the long-term.

University of Iowa
Long-Term Disaster Recovery Plan Long-Term Disaster Recovery Plan-Prepared for the City of Oakland as a Model Plan for Local Governments in the San Francisco Bay Area
Documents and publications
DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The purpose of this Long-Term Disaster Recovery Plan is to develop a model action plan for the City of Oakland, as well as to identify the components of this type of plan for the cities and counties of the San Francisco Bay Area.

City of Oakland (USA)
Cover_Government of Haiti
Documents and publications
DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The priorities of the Post-Earthquake Action Plan are to cope immediately with the emergency, restart economic, governmental and social activities, reduce the vulnerabilities of the country and once again put Haiti on the path of development.

Haiti - government
Aceh Recovery Framework (ARF) 2008-2011
Documents and publications
DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

This document presents the major challenges in Aceh’s transition and governmental priorities, benchmarks and outcomes in virtually every sector of peace building, recovery and development activity in the aftermath of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami.

Indonesia - government
United Nations - Headquarters
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
European Union
World Bank, the
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)

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