Guidance for Disaster Recovery

This guidance presents people-centred circular approaches to rubble management and reconstruction after disasters and conflicts. It outlines practical measures to reuse and recycle rubble while supporting recovery, livelihoods and sustainable rebuilding.

This guide outlines how private-public partnerships can support disaster restoration and long-term recovery through coordinated planning and resilience-building.

A resource on the role of technology in disaster recovery. This guidance note explores how digital tools, data, and innovation support recovery planning, assessments, and rebuilding efforts.

The Build Back Better Sector Guides provide practical resources to support clients, partners, and staff of the Asian Development Bank to enhance the climate and disaster resilience of communities, infrastructure and systems.

This recovery brief provides recovery practitioners with lessons and good practices on financing post-disaster recovery, recovery preparedness and building back better.

This document recommends procedures for the disaster recovery of irrigation infrastructure, taking policy and institutional context and practices in Sri Lanka into account.

This report shares a process of social innovation undertaken to improve the financial recovery of low- and moderate-income (LMI) households from increasing climate disasters.

The purpose of this Planning Guide is to provide the information and instruction needed for jurisdictions to adapt the Local Disaster Recovery Plan Template to achieve their community’s recovery goals and priorities.