Towards transformative action: The unfulfilled promise of resilient recovery
The report delves into the critical yet often overlooked phase of recovery, emphasizing the need to prioritize and integrate resilience in recovery efforts to prepare vulnerable communities for current and future climate impacts. The key findings and recommendations within the report underscore the importance of adopting a holistic, risk-informed, multi-dimensional, and inclusive approach to recovery.
The report highlights several essential points:
- The need for proactive pre-event recovery planning and financing to prepare communities for future climate-related disasters.
- The importance of risk-informed and multi-dimensional recovery that extends beyond physical infrastructure to address social, human, natural, financial, and physical dimensions.
- The importance of inclusive recovery that actively involves marginalized and vulnerable communities in locally-led recovery decisions.
- The challenges and opportunities in financing resilient recovery, including the potential economic benefits of investing in resilience during the recovery phase.
- The call for global and national solutions to ensure swift, adequate funding for resilient recovery without causing excessive debt burdens.
Furthermore, the report provides a set of recommendations for both national governments and the international community to advance the cause of resilient recovery. The insights and recommendations presented in this report can inform efforts in disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, relief, and sustainable development.
