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

Improving the Post-Flood Financial  Resilience of Lower-Income  Households through Insurance
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DRF Guidance
Publications

This brief presents six policy options for local governments to harness the benefits of insurance to help improve post-flood financial resilience for lower-income households.

Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center
Cover_Sacramento County
Documents and publications
DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The purpose of this plan is to provide guidance to officials in Sacramento County on how to organize and manage the short-and long-term recovery processes to assist the county in becoming more resilient to the impacts from future disasters.

Sacramento County (USA)
Disaster Recovery Framework Hamilton County, OH
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

This Framework is designed to guide recovery activities during and following a disaster and coordinate multiple resources within Hamilton County, OH.

Hamilton County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency
Snohomish County Disaster Recovery Framework (November 2020)
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The Framework establishes a purposeful approach to enhance the Snohomish County's (Washington, USA) ability to manage recovery from disasters. Its purpose is to foster a timely recovery and efficient transition to the new normal of post disaster life.

Snohomish County (USA)
ASEAN Implementation Plan ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

This Implementation Plan is therefore an integral accompanying document (Annex) to the ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework (ACRF).

Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Vanuatu Recovery Strategy 2020-2023 TC Harold and COVID-19
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The aim of the Vanuatu Recovery Strategy is to support communities impacted by TC Harold and COVID-19, by providing a framework to recover, rebuild and emerge stronger and more resilient.

Vanuatu - government
Journey to recovery
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

Journey to recovery describes the collaborative approach being taken across Australia to recover from the devastating 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires.

Australia - government
San Joaquin County Long-Term Recovery Plan
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The San Joaquin Operational Area Recovery Plan is a comprehensive, all-hazard plan that establishes a framework for managing recovery efforts within the county.

San Joaquin County (California, USA)
3RF Cover
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The framework for Reform, Recovery and Reconstruction (the 3RF) is a people-centered recovery and reconstruction framework, and a part of a comprehensive response to the massive explosion on the Port of Beirut on August 4, 2020.

World Bank, the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
European Union
United Nations Socio-Economic Response &  Recovery Framework COVID-19 in Angola
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DRF - Disaster Recovery Frameworks

The UNCT in Angola prepared this UN Socio-Economic Response Plan to COVID-19, which addresses both programmatic and policy support national needs, to which a budget is attached with costs and financial gaps.

United Nations - Headquarters

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