Disaster Recovery Frameworks

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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

CDBG-DR Action plan
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The Philadelphia Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program has been actively addressing the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.

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State of Kansas  Disaster Recovery Plan
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

This document outlines the authorities, organization, and key processes for implementing Kansas’ disaster recovery strategy.

State of Kansas
DRF Guide Energy Sector
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DRF Guidance

The DRF Guide for the Energy Sector is a companion to the main DRF Guide, with action-oriented guidance to develop a Disaster Recovery Framework (DRF) for the Energy Sector comprising sector-focused effective and efficient recovery programmes.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Queensland Recovery Plan - Sub-Plan to The Queensland State Disaster Management Plan
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The Queensland Recovery Plan outlines recovery requirements for operations, planning and arrangements at the local, district and state level.

Queensland Government
Environment Sector DRF Guide
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DRF Guidance

The DRF–Environment Guide is a companion to the main DRF Guide, with stepwise guidance on development of environmental recovery policy, team structure, stakeholders, etc. It walks through the process of establishing a comprehensive recovery framework.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Maui County Recovery Framework
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

This document serves as the Maui County Recovery Framework for the 2023 devastating fires and high winds impacting the Lahaina and Kula communities on August 7 and 8, 2023.

Maui County Council
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The 4RF document provides programmatic priorities, policy framework, institutional arrangements, financing strategy, and implementation arrangements for resilient recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction in the aftermath of the 2022 floods.

Pakistan - government
Ralls County Pre-Disaster Recovery Plan
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks
Publications

This Pre-Disaster Recovery Plan aims to facilitate and expedite Ralls County’s local disaster recovery operations and help the community establish a “new normal” following a natural or human-caused disaster.

Ralls County (USA)
Australian Disaster Recovery Framework
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The Australian Disaster Recovery Framework provides a high-level introduction to recovery principles and outcomes, information about the legislative context for recovery, and information about relevant national doctrine and policy.

Australia - government
State Emergency Management Plan State Disaster Recovery Coordination Framework September 2022
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The State Disaster Recovery Coordination Framework (SDRCF) describes the principles and arrangements that support a coordinated, effective and community-centred approach to assist impacted South Australian communities.

Government of South Australia

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