Infrastructure
Public buildings (e.g. schools, hospitals, government offices), transportation (e.g. roads, bridges), and communication (e.g. telephone, television, radio)
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IRP partner organizations and organizations working in recovery.
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- Earthquake Reconstruction (PDF, 3.5MB)
Recovery framework 2011 [GFDRR] - Does your business have a continuity plan (PDF, 59.8KB)
2011 - Public Expenditures and Risk Reduction (PDF, 163.2KB)
2011 - 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] - Recovery reports: Pakistan (from South Asia Earthquake 2005) (PDF, 5.5MB)
2007 [ERRA] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: Maldives (PDF, 2.1MB)
2007 [Ministry of Housing, Transport and Environment, Maldives] - Overview of innovative techniques in environmentally-aware recovery for infrastructure, and reducing future risk and serving the poorest most vulnerable communities (PDF, 1.8MB)
2009 [SEACAP] - Overview of innovative techniques in environmentally-aware recovery for infrastructure, paper (PDF, 694.1KB)
Applications of selected research outputs for the mitigation and management of crisis and recovery operations 2009 [SEACAP] - 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] - Aceh and Nias BRR Presentation (PDF, 527.1KB)
2008 [BRR] - 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 - 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] - Japanese earthquake insurance
- Safe Schools- A case Study from Uttar Pradesh, India
- 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] - 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] - 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] - Emergency reconstruction support program El Salvador (PDF, 1.3MB)
Following the earthquake of 13 January 2001 2001 [The World Bank] - Grenada: Hurricane Ivan preliminary assessment of damages (PDF, 52.6KB)
September 17, 2004 2004 [The World Bank] - Guyana: Preliminary damage and needs assessment (PDF, 730.9KB)
Following the intense flooding of January 2005 2005 [The World Bank] - Bam: One year after (PDF, 41.1KB)
2004 [UN/ISDR] - Gujarat Earthquake Recovery Program Assessment (PDF, 148.4KB)
2001 [ADB] - Florida Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning Guidebook
2010 - Assessing and Responding to Land Tenure Issues in Disaster Risk Management (PDF, 1.2MB)
2011 [FAO, UN-HABITAT] - 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] - 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] - BRR Book Series - Infrastructure - Stimulating the Triggerring Sector (PDF, 4.4MB)
Stimulating the Triggerring Sector 2009 [BRR] - Guiding Principles for Post-Tsunami Reconstruction (PDF, 413.1KB)
2005 [UNEP] - Guidelines for Reconstruction of Houses Affected by the Tsunami (PDF, 1.1MB)
General and Public Buildings (Masonry) 2007 [UNDP] - Guidance Note on Safer School Construction - Hindi (PDF, 1.6MB)
Guidance Note on Safer School Construction - Hindi 2009 [UN/ISDR] - Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction (PDF, 3.6MB)
2009 [GFDRR, UN/ISDR] - Fountains of Life: Rebuilding Water and Sanitation Systems in Earthquake-affected Areas in Pakistan (PDF, 219KB)
2007 [ERRA] - Reconceiving Recovery (DOC, 124KB)
2004 - APELL for School Safety (PDF, 180.3KB)
2004 [UNESCO, UNEP] - 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] - Recovery After the 2007 Pisco, Peru Earthquake (PDF, 242.5KB)
2008 - Report on the 2008 Great Sichuan Earthquake
2009 [UNCRD] - Earthquake Resistant Reconstruction: Pakistan (PDF, 3.6MB)
2006 [UN-HABITAT] - Recovery in Education: UNESCO (PDF, 1.6MB)
2006 [UNESCO] - Learning from Earthquakes: seismic reconstruction (PDF, 2.7MB)
2001 - Reconstruction of health facilities: Bam (PDF, 258.1KB)
2004 [WHO] - Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters (PDF, 982.2KB)
2003 [WHO] - Reconstruction programs in Jamaica post hurricane Gilbert (PDF, 40.6KB)
1996 - Safe Hospitals Checklist (PDF, 209.9KB)
2005 [WHO] - Report on the Reconstruction: Earthquake in Marmara (PDF, 227.9KB)
2002 [ADRC] - Post tsunami construction manual (PDF, 581.1KB)
2006 - Haiti Earthquake Reconstruction Knowledge Notes
2010 [GFDRR] - Defining Success: Tsunami Recovery in the Maldives, 2004-2006 (PDF, 3.6MB)
2006 - Land and Natural Disasters Guidance for Practitioners (PDF, 2.6MB)
2010 [UN-HABITAT, FAO] - Sri Lanka Innovative Approaches for Involuntary Resettlement (PDF, 1.8MB)
Lunawa Environmental Improvement and Community Development Project 2009 [JICA, UN-HABITAT] - Innovative design for water supply during floods - India (PDF, 2.5MB)
2010 [UNDP] - Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction - Chinese (PDF, 4.5MB)
Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction - Chinese 2010 [GFDRR, UN/ISDR] - Rapport d'évaluation des besoins après désastre Cyclones Fay, Gustav, Hanna et Ike (PDF, 6.5MB)
2008 [European Commission] - Guidelines for use of foreign filed hospitals (PDF, 496.5KB)
2003 [WHO] - Guidelines on non-structural safety in health facilities (PDF, 3.9MB)
2004 [WHO] - Guidelines for assessment of vulnerability of water systems (PDF, 975.3KB)
1998 [WHO] - Handbook on Good Building Design and Construction: Aceh (PDF, 2.1MB)
2007 [UNDP] - Izmit, Turkey Earthquake (PDF, 495.6KB)
1999 - Seven Principles for Planning and Designing for Tsunami Hazards (PDF, 532.9KB)
2001 - Hospital seismic safety in California (PDF, 469.1KB)
2007 - IMPROVING EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE OF SMALL BUILDINGS (PDF, 924.5KB)
2005 - INEE Minimum Standards for Education in emergenices (PDF, 1MB)
2004 - Seismic rehabilitiation of hospital buildings (PDF, 1.8MB)
2003 - Lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
2008 [JICA] - Gender policy for earthquake affected areas (PDF, 530.6KB)
2007 [ERRA] - 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] - 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 - 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] - Community participation in rebuilding in the Maldives (PDF, 401.2KB)
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moreProjects by IRP Partner Organizations
IRP member organizations related recovery projects
- Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction (PDF, 3.6MB)
2009 [UN/ISDR] - Safer Homes, Stronger Communities
A Handbook for Reconstructing After Natural Disasters 2009 [GFDRR] - View all