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

Bushfire Recovery Framework
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Bushfire Recovery Framework

This recovery framework provides a consistent and community-led approach for the planning and delivery of recovery activities for the 2019-20 Eastern Victorian bushfires.

State Government of Victoria
South Carolina County Predisaster Recovery Planning Guide
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DRF Guidance
South Carolina County Predisaster Recovery Planning Guide

This planning guide is designed to help South Carolina counties prepare for recovery by developing pre-disaster recovery plans that engage community stakeholders and outline an organizational framework for comprehensive local recovery efforts.

South Carolina Emergency Management Division
North Central Texas Council of Governments Recovery Framework
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North Central Texas Council of Governments Recovery Framework

The North Central Texas Recovery Framework combines research, international best practices, and subject-matter input to help local jurisdictions put the pieces in place to establish a "new, better normal" following a natural or human-caused disaster.

North Central Texas Council of Governments
Documents and publications
DRF Guidance
Disaster recovery framework guide

This guide is a revised and updated version of the Disaster Recovery Framework guide intended as a practice-based, results-focused tool to assist governments and partners in planning for resilient post-disaster recovery following a large-scale disaster.

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework
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ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework

The ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework (ACRF) serves as the consolidated exit strategy from the COVID-19 crisis.

Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
The Pierce County Disaster Recovery Framework (PCDRF)
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Pierce County Disaster Recovery Framework

The Pierce County Disaster Recovery Framework (PCDRF) defines how Pierce County (Washington, USA) will organize and operate, using existing and additional resources to promote effective recovery after a disaster.

Pierce County (USA)
2020 North Carolina Disaster Recovery Framework
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2020 North Carolina Disaster Recovery Framework

The purpose of the North Carolina Disaster Recovery Framework (NCDRF) is to offer direction to the North Carolina Disaster Recovery Task Force in its mission to address the unmet needs of communities affected by a disaster.

State of North Carolina, the
State of Connecticut Disaster Recovery Framework and ESF #14
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State of Connecticut Disaster Recovery Framework and ESF #14

The State of Connecticut Disaster Recovery Framework (DRF) provides a framework for state‐level support of local and tribal recovery efforts through partnerships with local, state, tribal, non‐governmental and federal organizations.

State of Connecticut, the
Mozambique Disaster Recovery Framework 2019
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Mozambique Disaster Recovery Framework 2019

The present DRF sets the vision, strategic objectives, and principles for Mozambique’s recovery over the next five years in response to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth.

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Cover_Regional Disaster Preparedness Organization
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Regional Recovery Framework (OR, USA)

The the RDPO developed a Regional Recovery Framework takes an all-hazards approach and outlines how to establish resilient and equitable local and regional recovery operations.

Regional Disaster Preparedness Organization (Oregon, USA)

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