moreOrganizations

IRP partner organizations and organizations working in recovery.

• Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA)
  
• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
  
• Ministry for Emergency Situations (EMER), Kazakhstan
  
• Ministry of Defence and National Security, Maldives
  
• Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights, Sri Lanka
  
• Ministry of Housing, Transport and Environment, Maldives
  
• Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, Myanmar
  
• National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), India
  
• National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Pakistan
  
• Secretaría Tecnica de Gestión de Riesgos
  
• South East Asia Community Access Programme (SEACAP)
  
• State Ministry Of Research And Technology, Indonesia
  
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  
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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]
• Strengthening disaster risk management in East Asia and the Pacific distance learning seminar series: session 3
  Session 3: Specialized seminar on local government approaches to disaster risk management: climate resilient cities 6 Mar 2009 [TDLC]
• IRP side event at the 1st global platform for disaster risk reduction
  A global catalyst for better recovery 6 Jun 2007 [IRP, UN/ISDR]
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moreIRP Case Studies

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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]
• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Preparedness (PDF, 272.2KB)
  2009 [IRP]
• Recovery Framework in Support of Governance of India for a Post-Tsunami Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (PDF, 457.9KB)
  2009 [IRP]
• Pakistan 2005 Earthquake Early Recovery Framework (PDF, 658.3KB)
  With Preliminary Costs of Proposed Interventions 2009 [IRP]
• ACEH RECOVERY FRAMEWORK (ARF) (PDF, 2.6MB)
  2009 [IRP]
• Aceh Emergency Response (PDF, 1.7MB)
  2009 [IRP]
• Why Governance (PDF, 478.8KB)
  2009 [IRP]
• Governance and Governments in Recovery (PDF, 462.2KB)
  2009 [IRP]
• Governance (Policy) (PDF, 410.4KB)
  2009 [IRP]
• Goverance in Recovery (PDF, 478.8KB)
  2009 [IRP]
• South Asia earthquake 2005: Learning from previous recovery operations (PDF, 681.4KB)
  2005 [ProVention Consortium]
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morePublications

Select recovery documents and publications. Contributions welcome

• Pre-event recovery planning for land-use in New Zealand (PDF, 1MB)
  Pre-event recovery planning for land-use in New Zealand 2006
• Earthquake Reconstruction (PDF, 3.5MB)
  Recovery framework 2011 [GFDRR]
• Cases and Practices on Role of Community in Recovery (PDF, 2.1MB)
  Role of Community in Recovery 2011 [IRP]
• Managing Post-Disaster Reconstruction Finance (PDF, 216.4KB)
  International Experience in Public Financial Management 2008 [The World Bank]
• Empowering People After Natural Disasters, Governance
  Lessons from the Post-Tsunami Legal Assistance, Governance, and Anticorruption Project in Sri Lanka 2010 [ADB]
• 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]
• Case study: Housing reconstruction in Mexico City
  1990 [The World Bank]
• Mangroves for the Future (PDF, 2.1MB)
  2007 [IUCN]
• Linking environmental management and disaster mitigation (PDF, 361.2KB)
  2007 [UNEP]
• International assistance for recovery: UN institutional and regulatory mechanism for post disaster recovery (PDF, 3.3MB)
  Role of the United Nations System in humanitarian assistance for disaster reduction and response: Lessons learned from the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and support for the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 2007
• Organizational and institutional arrangements : Indonesia (PDF, 460.6KB)
  2007 [BRR]
• Institutional arrangements for disaster management in India (PDF, 173.3KB)
  2007 [NDMA]
• Organizational and institutional arrangements : Pakistan (PDF, 223.9KB)
  2007 [ERRA]
• Aceh economic rehabilitation and reconstruction strategy (PDF, 39.2KB)
  2007 [BRR]
• Learning from disaster recovery (PDF, 2.7MB)
  keynote speech 2007
• 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]
• JICA's assistance for disaster management (PDF, 801.9KB)
  Reports on regional activities for capacity development and recovery 2008 [JICA]
• Disasters and recovery planning in the Caribbean region (PDF, 324.6KB)
  Reports on regional activities for capacity development and recovery 2008 [CDERA]
• Training on capacity development for better recovery (PDF, 1MB)
  Reports on regional activities for capacity development and recovery 2008 [JICA]
• Recovery and capacity development activities in Asian region (PDF, 1MB)
  2008 [ADRC]
• Further implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action - expectations for Hyogo - (PDF, 342.8KB)
  2008 [UN/ISDR]
• Mainstreaming environment in into recovery: Myanmar (PDF, 592.6KB)
  2009 [UNEP]
• 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]
• Barriers to effective disaster assessment; The return to development including environmental concerns and risk reduction (PDF, 742.3KB)
  2009 [UNDP]
• Disaster hazards in Bhutan (PDF, 2.7MB)
  2009 [Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs, Bhutan]
• Post event assessment of Tinau River and recent recovery experiences of Saptakoshi Flood in Nepal (PDF, 2.3MB)
  2009 [Ministry of Home Affairs, Nepal]
• 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]
• Environment and disaster recovery (PDF, 2MB)
  2009 [UNEP]
• Recent recovery experience with regards to the integration of environment and climate change concerns, Thailand (PDF, 2.4MB)
  2009 [Ministry of Interior, Thailand]
• International Recovery Forum 2009: Wrap up of Day 1 (PDF, 381.8KB)
  2009 [ADRC]
• 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
• Risk management: Institutionalization process in Ecuador (PDF, 1.6MB)
  2009 [Secretaría Tecnica de Gestión de Riesgos]
• 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]
• Current recovery status report 1-Myanmar (Cyclone Nargis) (PDF, 2.9MB)
  2009 [Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, Myanmar]
• Resilient recovery processes that take into account ecosystem and ecosystem service, Pakistan (PDF, 2.7MB)
  2009 [NDMA]
• Resilient recovery processes that take into account ecosystem and ecosystem service, Maldives (PDF, 887.7KB)
  2009 [Ministry of Defence and National Security, Maldives]
• Resilient recovery processes that take into account ecosystem and ecosystem service, Kazakhstan (PDF, 2.7MB)
  2009 [EMER]
• Community strength towards Disaster Mitigation-A case study of PRI
  
• 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]
• 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]
• Report on recovery and reconstruction following the Orissa Super Cyclone in October 1999 (PDF, 112.8KB)
  2002 [ADRC]
• Gujarat Earthquake 2001 (PDF, 235.7KB)
  Comparative study on Recovery and Reconstruction 2003 [ADRC]
• Good practices of Total Disaster Risk Management
  2005 [ADRC]
• Local governance in tsunami recovery: Lessons learned and emerging principles (PDF, 138.4KB)
  2006 [UNDP]
• Project lessons learned in post-disaster recovery and development process in Latin America and the Caribbean: Bolivia (PDF, 67.1KB)
  2005 [UNDP]
• Project lessons learned in post-disaster recovery and development process in Latin America and the Caribbean: Venezuela (PDF, 76.1KB)
  2005 [UNDP]
• Project lessons learned in post-disaster recovery and development process in Latin America and the Caribbean: Colombia (PDF, 81.5KB)
  2005 [UNDP]
• South Asia Earthquake 2005: Learning from previous earthquake releif operations (PDF, 674KB)
  2005 [ALNAP]
• Gujarat Earthquake Recovery Program Assessment (PDF, 148.4KB)
  2001 [ADB]
• Tsunami emergency lessons from previous natural disasters (PDF, 83.4KB)
  2005 [ALNAP]
• 10 Management Lessons for Host Governments Coordinating Post-disaster Reconstruction (PDF, 3MB)
  Executing Agency for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (BRR) of Aceh–Nias 2005–2009 2009 [BRR]
• Florida Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning Guidebook
  2010
• Asian Tsunami: Aid and Reconstruction after a Disaster
  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]
• BRR Book Series - Supervision - Eradicating Corruption with No Tolerance (PDF, 6MB)
  SUPERVISION-Eradicating Corruption with No Tolerance 2009 [BRR]
• 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]
• Community - to - Community Learning (PDF, 364.2KB)
  2011
• 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]
• BRR Book Series - Institution - Laying the Foundation of Good Government (PDF, 3.8MB)
  Laying the Foundation of Good Government 2009 [BRR]
• India Reconstruction Following the 2004 Tsunami (PDF, 322.4KB)
  2005
• Comparative study of recovery operations (PDF, 145.1KB)
  2003
• Reconceiving Recovery (DOC, 124KB)
  2004
• Delivering Results in Post Disaster Recovery through Effective Financial Management, the Case of Aceh and Nias (PDF, 582KB)
  2008 [BRR]
• Lessons from Aceh: key considerations in post-disaster reconstruction (PDF, 6.8MB)
  2010 [DEC]
• The Day After Tomorrow (PDF, 4.3MB)
  A Handbook on the Future of Economic 2010 [The World Bank]
• Empowering People After Natural Disasters (PDF, 468.9KB)
  Lessons from the Post-Tsunami Legal Assistance, Governance, and Anticorruption Project in Sri Lanka 2010 [ADB]
• Sphere Project Handbook 2011 (PDF, 5.1MB)
  2011 [Sphere Project]
• Beyond Kobe (PDF, 294KB)
  A Proactive Look at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction. 18-22 January 2005, Kobe, Japan 2005
• Questions for Regional Long Term Recovery Planning (DOC, 29KB)
  2010
• London Recovery Management Protocol (PDF, 1.5MB)
  2008
• Long Term Disaster Recovery Plan, Part 1, for the City of Oakland (PDF, 1.9MB)
  2009
• The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned (PDF, 2.6MB)
  2006
• Focus on Recovery: A Holistic Framework for Recovery in New Zealand (PDF, 1.7MB)
  2005
• Recovery from the Tsunami: Microfinance: Grammen Foundation (PDF, 1MB)
  2005
• Report on spending of tsunami funds (PDF, 2.4MB)
  2005
• Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for the Asian tsunami (PDF, 3MB)
  2005 [UN]
• Recovery in Education: UNESCO (PDF, 1.6MB)
  2006 [UNESCO]
• Lessons from Pakistan Earthquake: PM speech (PDF, 41.1KB)
  2006
• Haiti Earthquake Reconstruction Knowledge Notes
  2010 [GFDRR]
• Natural disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: National, regional and international
  Humanitarian Policy Group Working Paper 2008 [ODI]
• El Salvador: A case study in the role of the affected state in humanitarian action
  Humanitarian Policy Group Working Paper 2008 [ODI]
• The role of the affected state: A case study on the Peruvian earthquake response
  2008 [ODI]
• assessment of disaster impact on food supply in Madagascar (PDF, 128.1KB)
  2000 [FAO]
• Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA) Structure for Recovery (PDF, 279.2KB)
  2005
• ICT for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery (PDF, 1.3MB)
  2005
• 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]
• 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]
• Pakistan 2005 earthquake (PDF, 1.2MB)
  Preliminary damage and needs assessment 2005 [ADB]
• 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]
• From relief to recovery (PDF, 1.7MB)
  The GUJARAT experience 2001 [UNDP]
• 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]
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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]
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moreRecovery Cases & Reports

• Local governance: Preconditions for effective disaster risk management (PDF, 3.2MB)
  Good practice examples of disaster risk management in the Buzi District of Central Mozambique
• Forearmed for surviving natural disasters
  2005 [UNDP]
• Rebuilding the shattered lives and livelihoods of Malaysia's tsunami victims: UNDP making a difference
  2005 [UNDP]
• Joint UN Agency response to the immediate humanitarian needs of the tsunami affected Acehnese
  2005 [UNDP]
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