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IRP collects news and organizes events to facilitate discussion on resilient recovery and building back better, including the annual International Recovery Forum.

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African Economic Conference 2021: financing Africa’s post-COVID-19 development
The 2021 edition of the African Economic Conference, jointly organized by the African Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations Development Programme, is planned to be held in Cabo Verde from 2 to 4 December 2021.
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A Collective Memory: A webinar examining post pandemic commemoration
In this webinar we will consider how we will collectively remember the Covid-19 pandemic, reviewing lessons from history about building resilience through coproduced commemoration.
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Virtual Study Tour:  Prepare Better, Build Back Better: Towards a More Resilient Algeria 
Overview The Government of Algeria, in collaboration with the World Bank, is organizing a virtual study tour aiming to bring together Algerian stakeholders with Disaster Risk Management (DRM) experts from around the world. This series of virtual knowledge
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Addressing COVID-19 for the Environment: Regional Nexus Approaches to Building Back Better
This event presents case studies on “Regional Acceleration of Climate Action and Decarbonization” and exchanges surrounding nexus thinking and integrated policy-making tools. There is value to investigate and exchange nexus, multi-dimensional, and
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Addressing COVID-19 for the Environment: Financing Green Recovery
This event focuses on the important role of the public sector, and fiscal policy, that can support a stronger and greener economic recovery, whilst creating a collaborative and enabling environment for the private sector to mobilize resources to Build
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Recovering from COVID-19 Webinar
In April 2020, at the height of the first wave of COVID-19 across Europe, academics at Alliance Manchester Business School and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester launched The Manchester Briefing, a UK funded
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Communities - the new local resilience capability
This webinar will explore whether community resilience established during COVID-19 can be a new local and national resilience capability. During COVID-19 communities around the globe have proved to be an invaluable resilience capability. We have witnessed
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Webinar: Recovery and renewal from Covid-19: A year of The Manchester Briefing
In April 2020, at the height of the first wave of COVID-19 across Europe, academics at Alliance Manchester Business School and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute launched The Manchester Briefing – a fortnightly document that brings together
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Partnering with communities on Puerto Rico disaster recovery
After Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck Puerto Rico in 2017, RAND helped its government develop a comprehensive recovery plan. With support from the RAND Alumni Impact Fund, researchers partnered with Puerto Rico communities, including local
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A green recovery in Asia: opportunities for concerted action
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic crisis are posing immense challenges with far reaching impacts across Asia. The period of economic rebuilding after the crisis provides an opportunity to build back better to create more resilient
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IRP Herald

Herald vol. 16 -EN
Documents and publications
IRP Herald
IRP Herald Vol 16: Build Back Better through Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning: An Orientation Workshop

IRP Herald Volume 16 is the knowledge report for the orientation workshop on Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning facilitated by the IRP, the Crime and Disaster Prevention Exhibition, and the First National Conference on Promoting Disaster Risk Reduction.

International Recovery Platform
Herald vol. 15 -EN
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IRP Herald
IRP Herald Vol 15: Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning Orientation Workshop at the Asian Institute of Management

IRP Herald Volume 15 is the knowledge report for the Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning (PDRP) Orientation Workshop facilitated by the IRP at the Asian Institute of Management, as well as the Consultation of the Handbook on Build Back Better in Recovery.

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International Recovery Forum

The International Recovery Forum, established in 2005, 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. It is a forum designed to generate ideas and collaboration through dialogue and debate, sharing of experiences and the latest evidence in disaster recovery. The forum is coordinated annually in Kobe, Japan, by the International Recovery Platform (IRP) Secretariat, in close consultation with the IRP Steering Committee.

The annual forum is organized around themes to address key prevailing priorities and gaps in knowledge and practice for recovery and building back better. The forum’s themes link with the outcomes and lessons emerging from previous IRP Forums and other relevant global events, in order to advance the field. The International Recovery Forum is among the key activities managed by IRP in support of its mandate to share experiences and learning among countries and all relevant stakeholders, explicitly designated in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

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