Post Disaster Recovery

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Post- Disaster Recovery
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Current Practices of Recovery Gaps and
shortcomings

• Dominated by humanitarian assistance and
  emergency management
• Funding gap
• Knowledge gap
• Coordination gaps
• Rebuilding Risk
• Spontaneous Recovery
• Donor Reluctance for longer term recovery
• Coordination Issues
• And more

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International Recovery Platform
Pre-disaster
Post-disaster
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What is Recovery ?

• Shifting the focus of the operation from life
  saving to life- sustaining activities
• To Restore peoples Life
• To restore the economy
• To rebuild communities
• To restore the system of local governance
• To strengthen the resilience capacities of
  communities to risks

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Recovery Strategy

• Building on Local and National Capacities
• Decentralised Planning and Programming
• Holistic approach
• Recovery as an opportunity to reduce
  vulnerabilities
• Demonstration Effect
• Enhancing Coordination
• Participation, Participation, Participation

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MDGs


Sustainable Development MDGs by 2015
Connection Recovery to SHD
Pre-crisis HDI
Human Development Index Poverty as a proxy
National ownership vulnerability reduction
Ideal Path
Delayed Path
Continuing Path
Crisis
Unsustainable
TIME
IP (ideal) DP (delayed)
Relief
Transition
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Recovery What Approach ?
Integration of risk reduction and structural
mitigation measures
Markets and trade Micro enterprise development,
sustainable livelihoods , support and skill
training, job creation
Community development, social cohesion,
rebuilding social capital, Rehabilitation of
basic Infrastructure for basic services, housing
,culture and practice of crisis prevention
Democratic Governance, Public Administration,
Local Governance, Civil Society, Media
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Housing reconstruction in recovery process

• Housing and Infrastructure reconstruction will
• contribute to recovery by
• boosting the economic recovery
• fostering the social relationship
• providing security and dignity to people
• building capacities
• Providing safe living environment

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Approaches to Recovery of housing sector

• Housing as a process rather a product
• Enabling strategies
• Housing reconstruction a development policy issue
  rather than a mere technical issue( Focus on
  Housing rather than houses)
• Housing reconstruction as a window of opportunity
  to reduce risk

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Housing recovery process

• Land and property issues
• Financing issues
• Regulatory Framework, Institutional Capacity
  Building
• Labour and implementation issues.
• Technology
• Architectural Design

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