Health
Health facilities, health practitioners, government and non-government efforts
Go Guidance Notes on Recovery: Health (draft)
moreOrganizations
IRP partner organizations and organizations working in 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] - Handbook for estimating the socio-economic and environmental effects of disasters (PDF, 7.4MB)
2003 [ECLAC] - Integrated Risk Assessment (IRA)
Report Prepared for the WHO/UNEP/ILO International Programme on Chemical Safety 2001 [ILO, UNEP, WHO] - View all
morePublications
Select recovery documents and publications. Contributions welcome
- 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] - Case study: Housing reconstruction in Mexico City
1990 [The World Bank] - Recovery reports: Pakistan (from South Asia Earthquake 2005) (PDF, 5.5MB)
2007 [ERRA] - Our initiatives for recovery from the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake (PDF, 1.7MB)
2008 [Hyogo Prefectural Government, Japan] - 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] - Sharing Japan's experience in natural disasters
Anthology of Good Practices - to create a global culture of prevention - 2005 [Cabinet Office, Japan] - 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] - Gujarat Earthquake Recovery Program Assessment (PDF, 148.4KB)
2001 [ADB] - Florida Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning Guidebook
2010 - 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] - Bahan Bahan Asbes: Dalam Situasi Daruat (PDF, 5.8MB)
Bahasa translation of the "Brief Guide to Asbestos in Emergencies: Safer Handling & Breaking the Cycle" 2011 [Shelter Centre] - A Brief Guide to Asbestos in Emergencies (PDF, 963.3KB)
Safer Handling and Breaking the Cycle 2009 [Shelter Centre] - The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake:In depth damage report by affected cities SEEDS (PDF, 889.8KB)
2011 [SEEDS Asia] - Reconstruction of health services in Bam (PDF, 258.1KB)
2004 [WHO] - Fountains of Life: Rebuilding Water and Sanitation Systems in Earthquake-affected Areas in Pakistan (PDF, 219KB)
2007 [ERRA] - Reconceiving Recovery (DOC, 124KB)
2004 - Lessons from Aceh: key considerations in post-disaster reconstruction (PDF, 6.8MB)
2010 [DEC] - Guidance on including older people in emergency shelter programmes (PDF, 348.5KB)
2011 [IFRC] - Sphere Project Handbook 2011 (PDF, 5.1MB)
2011 [Sphere Project] - Role of Laboratories and Blood Banks in Disaster Situations (PDF, 791.7KB)
2002 [WHO] - Health recovery post tsunami (PDF, 8.2MB)
2005 [WHO] - Health consequences of the tsunami (PDF, 43.6KB)
2005 [WHO] - Tsunami Recovery and Impact Assessment (PDF, 3.4MB)
2006 [IFRC, WHO] - Health response to volcanic eruption (PDF, 1.6MB)
2002 [WHO] - Health response to Mitch (PDF, 3.1MB)
1999 [WHO] - Hospital decision making post Katrina (PDF, 1.3MB)
2006 - Public health after Katrina (PDF, 2.7MB)
2007 - Health Guidelines for Fire Events (PDF, 1.2MB)
1999 [UNEP, WHO] - Reconstruction of health facilities: Bam (PDF, 258.1KB)
2004 [WHO] - Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters (PDF, 982.2KB)
2003 [WHO] - Reconstruction strategy for the health sector: Pakistan (PDF, 1.3MB)
2005 [ERRA] - Health and Economic Consequences of the 1997/98 El Niño (PDF, 466.3KB)
1999 - Health response to disasters: Protecting public health (PDF, 759.2KB)
2000 [WHO] - Disaster mental health programs (PDF, 871.4KB)
2003 - Haiti Earthquake Reconstruction Knowledge Notes
2010 [GFDRR] - Innovative design for water supply during floods - India (PDF, 2.5MB)
2010 [UNDP] - 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] - Disease impact post tsunami (PDF, 2MB)
2005 - Flood damage assessment Djibouti (PDF, 415.1KB)
2004 [WHO] - Environmental health management ex-post (PDF, 4.5MB)
1982 [WHO] - Hospital seismic safety in California (PDF, 469.1KB)
2007 - Seismic rehabilitiation of hospital buildings (PDF, 1.8MB)
2003 - Guidelines for vulnerability reduction in the design of new health facilities (PDF, 1.1MB)
2005 [WHO] - Natural Disasters and the Impacts on Health (PDF, 60.3KB)
2002 - Health sector response to Bam earthquake: Lessons learned (PDF, 1MB)
2005 [WHO] - Management of dead bodies after disasters (PDF, 1.1MB)
2006 [WHO, IFRC] - Public health response to extreme weather and climate events (PDF, 102.1KB)
2004 [WHO] - Strengthening health systems' response to crises (PDF, 1.1MB)
2004 [WHO] - 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] - Review of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies recovery operations summary report (PDF, 669.1KB)
2006 [IFRC] - View all