Remaking the case for linking relief, rehabilitation and development: how LRRD can become a practically useful concept for assistance in difficult places

Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) Working Paper, April 2014:

This report gives some thought as to how far resilience and 'linking relief, rehabilitation, and development (LRRD)' could be made practically useful. It describes how LRRD can be defined conceptually, how it can be put into practice, and explains the implications of LRRD for the existing aid structure. The report goes further into detail on how resilience can offer a new way of thinking about development assistance and it offers a way of bringing together humanitarian and development assistance in these difficult places where long term engagement and crisis response so frequently overlap. In this regard, it mentions that the relevance of LRRD for disaster risk reduction (DRR) lies in the fact that DRR could be mainstreamed in development assistance, and that it could pay more attention to the political, social and economic aspects underpinning repeated crises.