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Guide to developing disaster recovery frameworks: Sendai Conference version
Source
World Bank, the
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the

Publication Year
2015
Number of pages
88 p.
This guide provides the essential information to assist policy makers and other stakeholders in formulating a framework for the medium- to long-term post-disaster recovery. This framework will help in articulating the recovery vision; defining the recovery strategy; prioritizing actions; fine-tuning planning; and providing guidance on financing, implementing, and monitoring the recovery. The framework also is a tool that helps in learning and self-evaluation, leading to continuous improvements over the course of the recovery implementation.
This guide will enable a government to create a national disaster recovery framework (DRF) that:
- Complements post-disaster needs assessments (PDNAs) or similar assessments as a tool to program and plan the recovery.
- Lays out the roles, responsibilities, and organizing structure of the governmental and nongovernmental agencies, as well as of the local authorities and groups responsible for disaster recovery.
- Provides an integrated, program-level action plan to facilitate multisector recovery planning, prioritization, and activity sequencing. The frameworks also will guide funding and portfolio management decisions.
- Functions as a living baseline document to monitor progress and evaluate impacts.
- Ensures aid effectiveness by bringing together multiple stakeholders, governmental and nongovernmental, around one common and inclusive government-led platform for recovery strategizing, planning, and project management.
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