Program Profiles: A series highlighting key GFDRR-supported initiatives- Disaster Recovery Framework

After a disaster, the reconstruction process is an important opportunity to promote resilience against future events. The Disaster Recovery Framework program gathers best-practices from a variety of stakeholders to ensure that affected countries recover efficiently and build back better.

In response to the growing demand from developing countries for sustained technical assistance after a disaster, GFDRR partnered with the EU, UNDP, and the World Bank to develop a Disaster Recovery Framework Guide (DRF Guide). The DRF Guide supports governments in planning, prioritizing, financing, and implementing recovery programs to ensure resilience. Focused on medium to longer-term recovery efforts, a disaster recovery framework is design to help policymakers, financial managers, and others accomplish the full range of recommendations from post-disaster assessments. Based on good practices compiled from the disaster recovery experiences of nine countries, it is now being utilized by governments globally as a tool to inform efficient and effective recovery.