Livelihood
Training in skills, employment generation programmes, credit programmes, agriculture and associated trades, and other economic activities
Go to Guidance Notes on Livelihoods and Recovery
moreOrganizations
IRP partner organizations and organizations working in recovery.
moreMeetings and Trainings
Professional development on recovery issues through conferences, workshops, training and academic programmes
- IRP Regional Workshop in Yogyakarta (PDF, 270.6KB)
Action for Effective Management of Post-Disaster Recovery 3-5 Nov 2009 [IRP] - IRP regional recovery forum
Beyond lessons learned from post-disaster recovery 8 Nov 2007 [IRP] - International forum on tsunami and earthquake
Progress of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action and recovery from tsunami and earthquake 15-16 Jan 2007 [IRP] - Damage and needs assessments for post-disaster recovery
30-31 Jan 2006 [ILO, IRP, UNDP, UN/ISDR] - View all
moreIRP Case Studies
Case Studies aim to provide useful information essential for post disaster recovery
moreTools and Guidelines
Find tools and guidelines useful for recovery operations
- Guidance note on early recovery (PDF, 3.1MB)
2008 [UNDP] - Guidance note on early recovery (PDF, 3.1MB)
2008 [UNDP] - Intervention for Livelihood Recovery (PDF, 502.4KB)
2009 [IRP] - Planning Sustainable Livelihood Recovery (PDF, 319.9KB)
2009 [IRP] - Supporting Livelihood in Disaster Recovery (PDF, 341KB)
2009 [IRP] - Introduction to Livelihood Recovery (PDF, 240.7KB)
2009 [IRP] - Gender and Livelihood (PDF, 305.9KB)
Gender and Livelihood 2009 [IRP] - Handbook for estimating the socio-economic and environmental effects of disasters (PDF, 7.4MB)
2003 [ECLAC] - Disaster livelihood assessment toolkit, preliminary version (PDF, 2.4MB)
Analysing and responding to the impact of disasters on the livelihoods of people 2007 [FAO, ILO] - Guidelines for reducing flood losses (PDF, 2.5MB)
[USA NOAA, DESA, UN/ISDR] - South Asia earthquake 2005: Learning from previous recovery operations (PDF, 681.4KB)
2005 [ProVention Consortium] - View all
morePublications
Select recovery documents and publications. Contributions welcome
- Earthquake Reconstruction (PDF, 3.5MB)
Recovery framework 2011 [GFDRR] - Minimum Standards for Economic Recovery after Crisis (PDF, 1.7MB)
Minimum Standards for Economic Recovery after Crisis 2009 - Elements of disaster resilience: lessons from Bangladesh (PDF, 7.9MB)
Mainstreaming Livelihood-Centred Approaches 2010 - Does your business have a continuity plan (PDF, 59.8KB)
2011 - FLOATING GARDENS IN BANGLADESH (PDF, 481.7KB)
2011 - The Impact of Cash Transfers on Local Markets (PDF, 312.6KB)
A Case Study of Unstructured Markets in Northern Uganda 2010 - Minimum Standards for Economic Recovery (PDF, 1.7MB)
2009 - Droughts and sustainable livelihoods in Iran
2004 - Preliminary assessment: Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 (PDF, 2MB)
2011 [ADRC, IRP] - The March 11, 2011, Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquake and Tsunami: Societal Dimensions
2011 - White Paper on Disaster Managment 2011-Executive Summary (PDF, 802.2KB)
2011 [Cabinet Office, Japan] - Preliminary assessment: Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 (PDF, 2MB)
[ADRC, IRP] - ECHO/ISDR good practices for resilient communities
World Conference on Disaster Reduction (18-22 January 2005, Kobe, Japan) 2005 [UN/ISDR] - Aceh economic rehabilitation and reconstruction strategy (PDF, 39.2KB)
2007 [BRR] - Back to business in a conducive environment (PDF, 685.7KB)
GTZ-supported economic reconstruction in Aceh in the frame of German development cooperation 2007 [GTZ] - Post disaster livelihood planning - the Sri Lanka experience (PDF, 541.4KB)
2007 [ILO] - Recovery reports: Thailand (from Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004) (PDF, 2.3MB)
2007 [Ministry of Interior, Thailand] - Recovery reports: Pakistan (from South Asia Earthquake 2005) (PDF, 5.5MB)
2007 [ERRA] - Progress in building an "end-to-end" Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System (PDF, 498.5KB)
2007 [UNESCO] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: India (PDF, 1.5MB)
Recovery from the Indian Ocean Tsunami; The Indian experience 2007 [NDMA] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: Maldives (PDF, 2.1MB)
2007 [Ministry of Housing, Transport and Environment, Maldives] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: Sri Lanka (PDF, 3.2MB)
2007 [Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights, Sri Lanka] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: Indonesia (PDF, 3.3MB)
Lessons learned and recovering from tsunami disaster 2007 [State Ministry Of Research And Technology, Indonesia] - Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (PDF, 1.1MB)
New initiative to enable / accelerate the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2007 [The World Bank] - Rehabilitation support to Indian Ocean Tsunami; Were lessons learned from Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake utilized? (PDF, 741.9KB)
2008 [JICA] - Further implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action - expectations for Hyogo - (PDF, 342.8KB)
2008 [UN/ISDR] - Overview of innovative techniques in environmentally-aware recovery for infrastructure (PDF, 2.2MB)
2009 [SEACAP] - Recent recovery experience with regards to the integration of environment and climate change concerns, Madagascar (PDF, 2.2MB)
2009 [CPGU] - Our initiatives for recovery from the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake (PDF, 1.7MB)
2008 [Hyogo Prefectural Government, Japan] - Lessons learned from the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake case (PDF, 2.5MB)
2008 - Sustainable recovery and reconstruction framework (SURRF) (PDF, 357.4KB)
2008 - Building Back a Green and Low-Carbon Community (PDF, 534.1KB)
Putting environment and climate change at the heart of recovery and reconstruction 2009 [ILO] - Indonesia: Notes on reconstruction the December 26, 2004 natural disaster (PDF, 2.2MB)
A technical report prepared by BAPPENAS and the international donor community 2005 [BAPPENAS] - Regional workshop on best practices in disaster mitigation
Lessons learned from the Asian urban disaster mitigation program and other initiatives 2002 [UNDP, UN/ISDR] - National report of Japan on disaster reduction (PDF, 2.5MB)
for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (18-22 January 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan) 2005 [Cabinet Office, Japan] - Sharing Japan's experience in natural disasters
Anthology of Good Practices - to create a global culture of prevention - 2005 [Cabinet Office, Japan] - Examining Traditional & Alternate Livelihood Interventions Post Tsunami among women from the fishing community in Nagapattinam
- A comparative study on recovery and reconstruction (PDF, 145.1KB)
A case for an international platform 2003 [ADRC] - Survey report on the reconstruction following the earthquake in Marmara, Turkey on August 17, 1999 (PDF, 227.9KB)
Comparative study on recovery and reconstruction [ADRC] - Gujarat Earthquake 2001 (PDF, 235.7KB)
Comparative study on Recovery and Reconstruction 2003 [ADRC] - Eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in June 1991 (PDF, 141.1KB)
Comparative study on Recovery and Reconstruction 2004 [ADRC] - Good practices of Total Disaster Risk Management
2005 [ADRC] - Latin American cases (PDF, 193.9KB)
Hurricane Mitch(1998), Flash Floods and Landslides in Venezuela(2000), El Salvador Earthquakes(2001) 2004 [ADRC] - A preliminary assessment of damage from the flood and cyclone emergency of February-March 2000 (PDF, 258.6KB)
2000 [The World Bank] - Guyana: Preliminary damage and needs assessment (PDF, 730.9KB)
Following the intense flooding of January 2005 2005 [The World Bank] - Invest to prevent disaster: Case study 4 India (PDF, 1.2MB)
The Experience of SEWA 2005 [UN/ISDR] - Invest to prevent disaster: Case study 3 Philippines (PDF, 644.1KB)
A Road Towards Building Disaster Resilient Communities 2005 [UN/ISDR] - Invest to prevent disaster: Case study 2 Bangladesh (PDF, 1.2MB)
Microfinance for Disaster Risk Management in Bangladesh 2005 [UN/ISDR] - Decent work, climate change and disaster risk reduction (PDF, 118.6KB)
2009 [ILO] - Gujarat Earthquake Recovery Program Assessment (PDF, 148.4KB)
2001 [ADB] - Tsunami emergency lessons from previous natural disasters (PDF, 83.4KB)
2005 [ALNAP] - Florida Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning Guidebook
2010 - Tsunami Communities Reborn (PDF, 1.4MB)
Rebuilding Livelihoods Better than Before 2005 [FAO] - Haiti Earthquake PDNA (PDF, 1.5MB)
Assessment of damage, losses, general and sectoral needs 2010 [Government of Haiti] - Action Plan for National Development and Recovery of Haiti (PDF, 1.5MB)
Immediate Key Initiatives for the Future 2010 [Government of Haiti] - Timber (PDF, 2.6MB)
2007 [UN/OCHA] - Maldives (PDF, 1.2MB)
- Damage/Needs Assessment In the Affected Area of The 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami (PDF, 3.7MB)
2011 [SEEDS Asia] - The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake:In depth damage report by affected cities SEEDS (PDF, 889.8KB)
2011 [SEEDS Asia] - Urban disasters – lessons from Haiti (PDF, 3.6MB)
2011 [DEC] - Rebuilding Lives and Homes in Aceh and Nias, Indonesia (PDF, 2.4MB)
Rebuilding Lives and Homes in Aceh and Nias: A Retrospective 2010 [ADB] - BRR Book Series - Economy - Turning the Wheel of Life (PDF, 5.8MB)
Turning the Wheel of Life 2009 [BRR] - India Reconstruction Following the 2004 Tsunami: Livelihoods (PDF, 49.2KB)
2006 [SEEDS Asia] - India Reconstruction Following the 2004 Tsunami (PDF, 322.4KB)
2005 - Boat rebuilding in Aceh (PDF, 5.4MB)
2005 [FAO] - Aquaculture Farm Rehabilitation post tsunami : FAO (PDF, 2.1MB)
2005 [FAO] - IRP Recovery Status Report 01 Yogyakarta
The Yogyakarta and Central Java Earhquake 2006 Current Status Report 2010 [IRP] - Lessons from Aceh: key considerations in post-disaster reconstruction (PDF, 6.8MB)
2010 [DEC] - Sphere Project Handbook 2011 (PDF, 5.1MB)
2011 [Sphere Project] - The Impact of Cash Transfers on Local Markets (PDF, 312.6KB)
A CASE STUDY OF UNSTRUCTURED MARKETS IN NORTHERN UGANDA 2010 [CaLP] - Delivering Money (PDF, 450.9KB)
Cash Transfer Mechanisms 2010 [Oxfam International] - Adaptive Strategies for Responding to Floods and Droughts in South Asia (PDF, 384.5KB)
2004 - Report on the 2008 Great Sichuan Earthquake
2009 [UNCRD] - Recovery from the Tsunami: Microfinance: Grammen Foundation (PDF, 1MB)
2005 - Rehab of fisheries post tsunami after one year (PDF, 178.7KB)
2006 [FAO] - Rehabilitation of fisheries and aquaculture in tsunami affected areas (PDF, 131.3KB)
2005 [FAO] - Drought livelihoods: Learning from previous recovery responses (PDF, 291.9KB)
2007 [ALNAP] - Livelihood, Cash for Work and Area Based Recovery, Haiti Earthquake 2010 (PDF, 206.8KB)
Empowering Haiti to Build a Better Future 2010 [UNDP] - Rebuilding livelihoods better than before (PDF, 1.5MB)
2005 [FAO] - Creating Long Term Job in Haiti (PDF, 1.4MB)
Haiti Apparel Center 2011 - Issues from Village Relocation (PDF, 646.8KB)
Improving Livelihoods in the Uplands of the Lao PDR 2005 - Livelihoods recovery post drought: Cash Transfers (PDF, 701.2KB)
2003 [IFRC] - Creating Rubble Recycling Solutions for Haiti (PDF, 660.1KB)
CRUSH 2011 - ERRA’s Livelihood Support Cash Grant Programme for Vulnerable Communities (PDF, 253.6KB)
2007 [ERRA] - Approaches to Equity in Post-Tsunami Assistance (PDF, 426.3KB)
2006 [DFID] - Haiti Earthquake Reconstruction Knowledge Notes
2010 [GFDRR] - Evolving Strategies for Long-Term Rehabilitation on Shelter and Habitat Development in the Tsuanami Affected Areas of Tamil Nadu (PDF, 3.2MB)
2005 [UNDP] - Overcoming Drought in India: Adaptation Strategies for the State of Andhra Pradesh (PDF, 818.7KB)
2006 [The World Bank] - Learning from Recovery after Hurricane Mitch: Experience from Nicaragua (PDF, 635.9KB)
Summary Report 2009 [IFRC] - Slow-onset Disasters: Drought and Food and Livelihoods Insecurity: Learning from Previous Relief and Recovery Responses (PDF, 291.9KB)
2007 [ALNAP] - Haiti recovery report - ILO (PDF, 2.6MB)
2010 [ILO] - Pre-disaster recovery planning for livelihoods - ILO (DOC, 1.8MB)
2011 [ILO] - Rapport d'évaluation des besoins après désastre Cyclones Fay, Gustav, Hanna et Ike (PDF, 6.5MB)
2008 [European Commission] - assessment of disaster impact on food supply in Madagascar (PDF, 128.1KB)
2000 [FAO] - Rapid assessment of the tsunami's impact on livelihoods (PDF, 2.1MB)
2005 [ILO] - Cash for Work Program Post-Tsunami (PDF, 958.7KB)
2005 - Improving Employment and Livelihood Post Tsunami (PDF, 5.4MB)
2005 [ILO] - Drought Contingency Planning for Pastoral Livelihoods (PDF, 478.9KB)
2001 - Supporting Recovery: A Guidebook for Microfinance Institutions (PDF, 462.7KB)
2005 [The World Bank] - Rehabilitation of fisheries and aquaculture post tsunami (PDF, 131.3KB)
2005 [FAO] - Lessons from drought recovery - Kenya - Livelihoods (PDF, 497.3KB)
2002 - Lessons for livelihoods in drought recovery: Iran (PDF, 480.6KB)
2004 - Cash grants aid recovery in the Bahamas after Tropical Storm Noel (PDF, 604.9KB)
2008 [IFRC] - The Tsunami Legacy (PDF, 5.8MB)
Innovation, Breakthroughs and Change 2009 [IFRC] - Lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
2008 [JICA] - Gender policy for earthquake affected areas (PDF, 530.6KB)
2007 [ERRA] - Rebuilding after Hurricane Mitch: Housing reconstruction in Honduras and Nicaragua (PDF, 790.8KB)
2007 [IFRC] - Ethiopian droughts: reducing the risk to livelihoods through cash transfers (PDF, 701.2KB)
2007 [IFRC] - Cash and voucher in relief and recovery: Red Cross Red Crescent good practices (PDF, 745.1KB)
2007 [IFRC] - Recovery and risk reduction through livelihood support in Timor-Leste (PDF, 966.1KB)
2008 [IFRC] - Learning lessons from disaster recovery: the case of Mozambique (PDF, 2.2MB)
Disaster risk management working paper series No.12 2005 [The World Bank] - World Conference on disaster reduction (PDF, 894.3KB)
18-22 January 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan 2005 [UNDP, UN/ISDR] - Reducing risk through environment in recovery operations (PDF, 983.9KB)
2009 [UNEP, UN/ISDR] - Turkey Marmara earthquake assessment (PDF, 820.4KB)
1999 [The World Bank] - Belize: Assessment of the damage caused by Hurricane Keith, 2000 (PDF, 1MB)
Implications for economic, social and environmental development 2000 [ECLAC] - Indonesia: Preliminary damage and loss assessment (PDF, 3.1MB)
The December 26, 2004 natural disaster 2005 [BAPPENAS] - Tsunami: Impact and recovery (PDF, 309.2KB)
Maldives post-Tsunami damage and needs assessment 2005 [The World Bank] - India: Post-Tsunami recovery program (PDF, 1.9MB)
Preliminary damage and needs assessment 2005 [ADB] - Pakistan 2005 earthquake (PDF, 1.2MB)
Preliminary damage and needs assessment 2005 [ADB] - Indonesia: Post-earthquake damage and loss assessment for Central Java and Yogyakarta (PDF, 5.8MB)
2006 [ADB, BAPPENAS] - Environmental management and disaster preparedness (PDF, 869.1KB)
Lessons learnt from the Tokage Typhoon (Typhoon 23 of 2004) in Japan 2005 [UNEP] - Invest to prevent disaster (PDF, 644.1KB)
2005 [UN/ISDR] - Survivors of the Tsunami: One year later (PDF, 2.1MB)
UNDP Assisting Communities to Build Back Better 2005 [UNDP] - Evaluacion del impacto acumulado y adicional ocasionado por la Niña en 2008 en Bolivia (PDF, 2.5MB)
2008 [The World Bank] - Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh: Damage, loss, and needs assessment for disaster recovery and reconstruction (PDF, 7MB)
2008 [European Commission] - 2008 Cyclone season in Madagascar: Damage, loss, and needs assessment for disaster recovery and reconstruction (PDF, 6.2MB)
Cyclone Fame, Ivan and Jokwe in Madagascar 2008 [The World Bank] - Post-Nargis joint assessment (PDF, 3.6MB)
A report prepared by the Tripartite Core Group comprised of Representatives of Government the Union of Myanmar, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United Nations with the support of the Humanitarian and Development Community 2008 [ASEAN] - Pakistan 2005 earthquake (PDF, 3.8MB)
Early recovery framework 2005 - IRP regional recovery forum 2007 (PDF, 1.9MB)
Beyond lessons learned from post-disaster recovery 2007 [IRP] - Learning lessons from disaster recovery: the case of Honduras (PDF, 660.8KB)
Disaster risk management working paper series No. 8 2004 [The World Bank] - From relief to recovery (PDF, 1.7MB)
The GUJARAT experience 2001 [UNDP] - Rebuilding homes and livelihoods in Jamaica after Hurricane Dean (PDF, 477.3KB)
2008 [IFRC] - Rebuilding homes and livelihoods in Grenada after Hurricane Ivan (PDF, 488KB)
2008 [IFRC] - Sri Lanka 2005 post-Tsunami recovery program (PDF, 551.8KB)
Preliminary damage and needs assessment 2005 [ADB] - Learning lessons from disaster recovery: the case of Bangladesh (PDF, 523.2KB)
Disaster risk management working paper series No.11 2005 [The World Bank] - Review of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies recovery operations summary report (PDF, 669.1KB)
2006 [IFRC] - Supporting communities to rebuild in Sri Lanka (PDF, 407.3KB)
2007 [IFRC] - Community participation in rebuilding in the Maldives (PDF, 401.2KB)
2007 [IFRC] - International Recovery Forum on Tsunami and Earthquake (PDF, 523.2KB)
Progress of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action and Recovery from Tsunami and Earthquake 2007 [IRP] - View all