International Recovery Platform

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International Recovery Platform Making a
difference with Risk Reduction in Recovery



Development Since May 2005



IRP Secretariat

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Current Context of Recovery
Post-disaster recovery often leads to rebuilding
risk ltRecreating Risk Vulnerabilitygt
Disaster risk reduction should be taken up as an
integral part of recovery process
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Towards a New Recovery Paradigm Essential
Factors of Recovery Activities

• Need to address gaps in recovery
• Improve coordination,
• Experience/ knowledge sharing,
• Capacity building
• Damage/ Needs/ Capacity assessment
• methodologies

Build Back Better than Before
Sustainable Development --- Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) ---
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Structure of IRP
ltKOBEgt Advocacy and Knowledge Management Facilita
te the dissem. of lessons
ltTURINgt Capacity Build. And Training Strengthen
national capacities
IRP ltSecretariat Kobegt Provide a coordination
framework and network
ltGENEVAgt Enhanced Recovery Operations Provide
advice/ support on formulation of reconstruction
plan
Towards Sustainable Development through a Culture
of Build Back Better (BBB)
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Key issues to deal under IRP
Knowledge Management/Advocacy ltKOBEgt By ADRC
ISDR, UNDP Develop Good Practice DB, and a
Cross-disaster Knowledge Management Kit to
Support Better Recovery Training ,Capacity
Building ltTURINgt By ILO UNDP/DMTP Preliminary
map of existing resources, Training curricula,
manuals, modules (target groups- National/ Local
authorities, trainers, experts. Pilot training
Latin America) Enhanced Recovery Operations
ltGENEVAgt By UNDP with partners Focusing on
developing needs/ damage/ capacity assessment
methodology
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A Groundbreaking initiative
Knowledge Management and Advocacy

• 1) Collect Good Practices and Lessons
  learned
• Preliminary DB (Link) of Good Practices
  (currently about 60)
• Publish above list of data sources on the IRP
  web with hyper-link

• 2) Development of a Good Recovery Case Study DB
  by filling the
• templates along the 10 thematic Lines
• IRP original ( currently on 27 disasters)
• Link with other data sources through GLIDE
• With search engine to facilitate cross cutting
  analysis

• 3) Compile a KM Kit of Recovery Guidelines
• Field survey to Sri Lanka, Aceh, Bangladesh
• Publish by the Thematic Lines 1st draft by May
  2006

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Learning from Disaster Recovery Guidance for
Decision Makers



First Draft Completed in May 2006




Main Editor Prof. Ian Davis, UK
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Advocacy, Information and Communication Strategy

• Advocacy and Communication Plan
• Information and Communication Tools
• IRP Website and Logo (revision)
• IRP News letter--- Recovery Network
• Recovery Case Studies Database
• Recovery Experts Roster

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Challenges Ahead

• Follow up to the KM Kit Aggressive
• strategy for wider dissemination and use by
• decision makers
• Training modules for capacity building
• Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning (PreDRP)
• International Recovery Forum on
• Tsunami and Earthquake, 15-16 Jan. 2007

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Collaboration- the heart of HFA

• IRP seeks active collaboration with
• IRP SC Members, Donors, IFIs,
• UN agencies like -
• UNESCO,UNICEF,UNOSAT, UNEP,
• HABITAT, WHO, UNCRD, UNV.
• Non-UN agencies, NGOs and CBOs,
• National/ Local Governments ,
• Universities and other academic institutions

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Our Motto Making a Difference, towards Better
Recovery Thank you for your attention
International Recovery Platform ltSecretariat in
Kobe Hyogogt