International Recovery Forum
The annual International Recovery Forum convenes a broad range of senior policymakers and practitioners to exchange experiences and facilitate discussion on challenges to resilient recovery and opportunities for building back better.
International Recovery Forum 2025: Achieving Resilient Recovery in a Changing World
Reflecting on 30 Years Since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
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All forums
- International Recovery Forum 2025: Achieving Resilient Recovery in a Changing World
- International Recovery Forum 2024: Accelerating Progress with Building Back Better: Resilient Recovery in the Face of Rising Climate Risks
- International Recovery Forum 2023: Building Back Better and Long-term Recovery Outcomes: Aspirations for a Resilient, Sustainable Future
- International Recovery Forum 2022: Redesigning Systems for Resilience through Recovery: Assessing Progress and the Unfinished Agenda at the Midpoint of the Sendai Framework
- International Recovery Forum 2021: Building Back Better from Compound Disasters - Practical Cases and Lessons for Recovery from Natural Hazards and COVID-19
- International Recovery Forum 2020: Building Back Better through Resilient Infrastructure
- International Recovery Forum 2019: Attaining the Build Back Better Dividend
- International Recovery Forum 2018: Build Back Better in Urban Resilience
- International Recovery Forum 2017: Build Back Better Towards Resilient and Healthy Communities
- International Recovery Forum 2016: Sending the Message of Build Back Better from Hyogo, Japan
- International Recovery Forum 2015: 20th Commemoration of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake - Sending the Message of Building Back Better from Hyogo, Japan
- International Recovery Forum 2014: The Role of Private Sector in Disaster Recovery
- International Recovery Forum 2013: Resilient Recovery in Cities and Municipalities: Lessons on Integrating DRR into Recovery and Development Planning-Tohoku and Global Experiences and the Post 2015 Framework for DRR
- International recovery forum 2012: Regional cooperation for resilient recovery
- International Recovery Forum 2012: Regional Cooperation for Resilient Recovery
- International Recovery Forum 2011: Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning for Building Back Better
- International Recovery Forum 2010: From Resilient Recovery to Sustainable Development
- International Recovery Forum 2009: Building Back Better and Greener
- International Recovery Forum 2008: Capacity Development for Better Recovery
Photos from past forums
Participants at the 2020 International Recovery Forum in Kobe, Japan.