Natural disasters often create the need for large, multi-faceted recovery and reconstruction programs. However, many governments do not have adequate capacity and knowledge to design, plan and manage such complex programs. Unprepared institutions and ineffective policies make coordination difficult and hamper the recovery process, resulting in prolonged suffering of people due to internal displacement, lack of shelter, loss of employment, and delayed restoration of essential services, such as water and electricity. Resilient recovery and reconstruction after a disaster is an important opportunity to promote resilience against future disasters.
The World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is working with the European Union (EU) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to develop an internationally applicable and practice based Disaster Recovery Framework (DRF) Guide that will help governments and partners design a resilient recovery plan.
A technical workshop will be held in Brussels, Belgium from November 4-7, 2013, to develop initial inputs for the DRF Guide and to consult on key issues related to recovery and reconstruction. The Brussels consultation will bring together international disaster recovery experts from the public sector, civil society, EU, UNDP, and World Bank. The DRF Guide will be based on agreed norms for resilient recovery reached through a global consensus.
The Framework and DRF Guide complement the Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA)—a government-led exercise that brings stakeholders together after a disaster to present damages and losses in a single consolidated assessment report. The DRF Guide will add value to the PDNA process by using the latter’s outputs as the basis for a comprehensive, integrated multi-sectoral approach to recovery planning and management. Over time, the DRF Guide will also help better prepare governments for disaster recovery.
The DRF Guide will be launched in 2014 at the second World Reconstruction Conference.
For more information, please click here for the fact sheet or contact recoveryframework@gmail.com.