International Recovery Platform (IRP) Updates

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

Introduction The adoption of the Sendai Framework paved the way for substantial advancements in building back better, including incorporating disaster-resilient designs, progress in assessment,...

Introduction The International Recovery Platform (IRP) aspired in 2021 to broaden its engagement, work with new partners, and reach new audiences through the UNDRR Regional Platforms for Disaster...

INTRODUCTION The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern for the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) on January 30, 2020. Since the disease was...

Introduction An unprecedented pandemic crisis The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern for the 2019 novel coronavirus on 30 January 2020. Since...

Building back better in the recovery from this global pandemic is absolutely necessary to build more resilient societies from health disasters including pandemic and epidemic. This toolkit is a...

Introduction: Restoring the Transport Sector after a Disaster Transport infrastructure and services underpin the economic growth and social development of any country. When the transport network is...

The materials contained in this supplementary document complement those found in the existing IRP Guidance Note on Recovery – Health. The discussions and case studies contained herein portray an...

Content The Guidance Note on Recovery: Private Sector draws from the wider body of knowledge on private sector recovery and from documented experiences of past and present disaster planning and...

In January 2015, Malawi experienced some of the most devastating flooding in its history. In the aftermath, the Government of Malawi conducted a post-disaster needs assessment (PDNA), with support...

This guidance note presents a series of steps to initiate and sustain Pre Disaster Recovery Planning (PDRP) in order to ensure that communities "build back better" following a natural disaster. It...

This study focuses on the 2006 landslide tragedy in the Philippines, where an entire community, including its people, its productive assets, and its socio-cultural resources, was totally buried. It...

Introduction to Health Recovery Purpose There is currently an abundance of documents, plans and policies that address common issues faced in the mitigation, preparedness and relief phases of natural...

This compilation presents different cases of post disaster recovery highlighting the role of community. Involvement of community in the overall process of determining what is to be done, how it is to...

Why Gender Issues in Recovery Are Important? 1.1 Recovery Cannot Be Resilient Without Addressing Gender Issues Gender shapes the disaster experience and the ability to recover. It explains why...

A comprehensive study of disaster threads, risks, challenge of limitation and also the promise of opportunities, briefly described as the lesson of disaster experience. This review provides...