Learning from Disaster Recovery

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Learning from Disaster Recovery

• International Recovery Platform (IRP) Review of
  Emerging Lessons

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The Indian Ocean Tsunami
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Hurricane Katrina
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Kashmir Earthquake
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What is disaster recovery?

• .the permanent construction or replacement of
  severely damaged physical structures, the full
  restoration of all services, and local
  infrastructure, the re-vitalization of the
  economy and the restoration of social and
  cultural life.
• An overview of Disaster
  Management, UNDP, 1991

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Who is undertaking this review?

• This is a combined operation involving
• Government of Japan
• UNDP
• ISDR secretariat incl. PPEW
• ADRC
• The review is being edited by a team led by
  Professor Ian Davis
• Resilience Centre, Cranfield University, UK

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Why is this learning needed?

• Because there is a gap. Currently, there is no
  documentation that compares disaster recovery
  lessons across sectors, cultures and hazard
  types.
• To document vital experiences of recovery
  management in order to share relevant knowledge
  with those needing it.

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• Without this study there is a serious risk of
  decision makers re-inventing wheels.
• A template is needed to enable future recovery
  studies to be undertaken to aid comparison and
  analysis.

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The Learning Cycle
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What aspects of recovery will be examined?

• Following natural disasters.
• Following all main natural hazards.
• Recovery in all phases, from early phases to
  long-term recovery.
• All sectors (e.g. livelihoods, shelters) of
  recovery management.
• Administrative patterns to support recovery
• Analysis of recovery will follow thematic lines
  of the project.

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Who are the audience?

• ALL STAKEHOLDERS
• Government officials responsible for recovery
  management.
• UN staff in agencies with recovery roles (i.e.
  UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNCHS, ISDR etc.)
• Staff in International Development Banks.

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• National and International NGOs.
• Private Sector (Construction, Small Business
  Sector, Agriculture, Financial Investment,
  Insurance, etc.).
• Donors supporting Disaster Recovery.

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Three dimensional recovery

• The review will seek to find lessons concerning
  the three dimensions of recovery
• PSYCHO-SOCIAL
• ECONOMIC
• PHYSICAL (including the
• natural
  environment)

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Three dimensional recovery
The review will identify lessons concerning
three dimensions of recovery
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Typical issues to be included

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• Long-Term
• effects of early
• decisions

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Temporary Housing in Skopje that survived and
shaped a city.
1963 - Skopje
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1970 - Skopje
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1974 - Skopje
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1989 - Skopje
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• Time Constraints
• In Recovery

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• Risk Reduction in Recovery

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How will this be undertaken?

• Key recovery documents have been assembled to
  form a data base (currently 56 disaster recovery
  examples compiled by IRP).
• A team of staff in IRP (Hyogo), ISDR Geneva,
  Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning (PPEW
  Bonn), Colombia and Oxford will develop the
  recovery review from December 2005-April 2006
  based on analysis along five thematic lines.

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What will be the result of this exercise?

• Improved global recovery management
• Better understanding concerning the integration
  of psycho-social, economic, and physical recovery
  actions.
• Advice on ways to incorporate risk reduction
  into recovery.
• Better use of money invested in recovery through
  an evidence based approach based on what works
  and what fails.

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