Employment, livelihoods and social protection: guide for recovery implementation

This guide is meant to be used after undertaking a Post-disaster  needs  assessment  (PDNA) exercise. It aligns with the  PDNA  Guidelines for  the  estimated  effects and impacts of a disaster on the cross-cutting ELSP  sector,  factoring  in  the  assessed  damage  and  loss  to  infrastructure,  productive  and  social  sectors. 

This short, action-oriented guide aims to assist senior advisers and officials from the national, provincial and local  governments,  intergovernmental  organizations  and implementing partners in designing and executing effective responsive cross-cutting programmes. As  the  go-to  document  for  ELSP  recovery,  the  guide  builds upon the assessment and multi-sector strategies offered  by  the  PDNA  Guidelines  and  DRF  Guide  for  a  specific  disaster. 

It  encourages  a  programme-wise  approach  to  defining  sector-specific  recovery  actions  based  on  identified  recovery  priorities.  Most  significantly,  it  helps  identify  viable  and  feasible  projects and assists grouping the interventions across infrastructure,  productive  and  social  sectors  by  the  short-,  medium-  and  long-term  employment  and  livelihood  recovery  they  support  and  the  associated  social protection4 programmes.