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Pre-disaster Recovery Planning: Lessons From Japan
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The aim of this research is to identify and evaluate good practice in Japanese recovery planning with emphasis on pre-disaster recovery planning and the potential application of those practices into the New Zealand planning and policy framework.

University of Otago
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This document discusses the importance of gender sensitivity in disaster risk reduction (DRR), and relates the history and experiences of the Japan Women's Network for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Japan Women's Network for Disaster Risk Reduction
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This document reports on the recovery efforts led by Save the Children in Japan. The report is comprised of four sections: (i) the first section of the report touches on their community grants initiative, their work with child-participation in disaster risk reduction, and their work to mitigate the effects on children of the Fukushima disaster; (ii) the second section contains success stories of their work in recovery; (iii) the third section outlines ideas for the future of their work in Japan; (iv) and section four explains the financial resources of the organization.

Save the Children International
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Case Study

This document presents a selection of fourteen case studies focusing on good practices and lessons learned by the private sector in relation to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Kobe Office
Kokusai Kogyo Co, Ltd.
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This document summarizes the recommendations from major organization from Japanese civil society based on the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake and its numerous challenges with this unprecedented scale of triple disaster (9.0 earthquake

Peace Boat
Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation
Church World Service - Asia/Pacific
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Case Study

This case study reflected on the situation of elderly victims and survivors of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake through the perspective of the disaster cycle.

World Health Organization (WHO)
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Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture was one of the coastal cities in the Northeast Tohoku Region which was heavily affected by the East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (EJET) that took lives of over 1,200 people, affected 80.8% of the business and deprived

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University 地球環境学堂・地球環境学舎・三才学林
SEEDS - Asia
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This document summarizes strategic recommendations to ensure recovery and reconstruction are explicitly referred to in the Post-2015 Global Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (HFA2).

International Recovery Platform

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