How-to Guide-Managing Post-disaster Reconstruction Projects

This document aims to give practical guidance on how to implement construction projects within the international relief sector/post-disaster situations. It gives best practice process to follow when engaging in a construction project either as part of emergency/transitional shelter, permanent housing or community infrastructure projects (roads, sewer, hospitals and schools).

This document offers guidance in order to achieve appropriate quality construction and to promote shelter solutions that provide adequate protection, privacy, health and safety, ultimately contributing to rebuilding the affected populations' livelihoods.

This document includes practical advice, templates and examples to help improve and safeguard the overall quality outcome, with attention to conditions and challenges in construction management which implementers may face in post-disaster (re)-construction.

This guide does not replace the need to employ or approach building environment professionals (architects, engineers, construction managers) to implement construction projects. Nor does it replace the countries' construction sector and industry best practices, protocols, standards and process often set out by professional bodies and government departments. This guide focuses on the construction management phase (feasibility to completion) of a project.