Resilient recovery: an imperative for sustainable development

This report documents the challenges and progress around the world in integrating disaster risk reduction measures into post-disaster recovery and rehabilitation. More importantly, it recommends policies and practices for strengthening disaster recovery systems that will help countries protect their hard-earned developmental gains.

The report was developed in support of the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015, a publication released every two years that monitors and spotlights progress, trends, and challenges in the disaster risk reduction arena. Specifically, the Global Assessment Report 2015 documents the progress made and challenges faced by the 168 signatory countries working to implement the disaster risk reduction priorities and actions agreed upon under the 2005 Hyogo Framework of Action (HFA).

The findings and recommendations of this report are based on qualitative and quantitative analyses of recovery experiences, drawn from a myriad of sources. Such sources include Regional Hyogo Framework for Action Monitors from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe; HFA country reports from Barbados, Indonesia, and Italy; input papers from Australia, Central America, India, Indonesia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Pakistan; knowledge notes from Japan; and nine field-based case studies and four additional desk-based studies.