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Enhancing Resilience: Risk Reduction in Recovery Strategies

Explore lessons learned from recovery efforts worldwide, highlighting the importance of integrating risk reduction into post-disaster reconstruction processes. Discover key strategies for reducing risks, promoting community participation, and building institutional capacity for disaster risk reduction. Learn from case studies in Bangladesh, Honduras, India, Mozambique, Turkey, and more. Delve into the complexities of balancing speed and effectiveness, aligning humanitarian principles with long-term recovery goals, and ensuring comprehensive assessments for sustainable recovery. Visit www.proventionconsortium.org for further insights.

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Enhancing Resilience: Risk Reduction in Recovery Strategies

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  1. ECOSOC 2006Risk reduction strategies in recovery

  2. Lessons learned from recovery • ProVention/World Bank lessons learned 2002-05: Five case studies • ProVention/ALNAP S.Asia Earthquake 2005- lessons learned from recovery • World Bank IEG Evaluation of Natural Disaster Assistance: ‘Hazards of Nature, Risks to Development’

  3. Lessons learned from recovery • Bangladesh (Floods 1998) • Honduras (Hurricane Mitch 1998) • India (Gujarat earthquake 2001) • Mozambique (Floods 2000/01) • Turkey (Earthquake 1999) • Review of 20 years (1984-2004) of World Bank experience in reconstruction & recovery operations

  4. Risk reduction in recovery:a real window of opportunity or not? • Assumption that recovery & reconstruction automatically presents a window of opportunity • New awareness of risks post disaster • Bad infrastructure washed away creating a blank slate to build back better • But experience shows risk reduction measures are seldom factored into the recovery process • Speed vs effectiveness • Humanitarian principles & practice do not mesh well with long term recovery • Development policies forgotten in recovery

  5. Reducing risk in recovery • Recovery projects are often too short to address projected length of recovery • Two timelines or recovery: • 1-3 yrs international system • 5-10yrs real-time recovery • Disaster risk reduction is a long-term process that requires long-term planning and system-wide support

  6. Reducing risk in recovery • Comprehensive assessment of damage, needs, vulnerabilities and capacities plays a key part in providing effective framework for recovery • Requires participation of affected communities and analysis of risks • Insufficient attention paid to impact of recovery on addressing social vulnerability and livelihoods

  7. Reducing risk in recovery • Institutional capacity building and governance underpin risk reduction • National and local institutions are key to promote risk reduction and ensure risk reduction is factored into recovery planning and programmes • Effective institutions for recovery are not being supported in a systematic fashion

  8. Key risk reduction strategies • Recognise process of recovery and risk reduction as long-term • Strengthen institutional capacity for DRR • Prioritise community risk assessment, participation and address social vulnerability • Support risk transfer & sharing- microinsurance, cash, safety nets, etc • Provide risk reduction incentives to shift from reactive ex-post to proactive ex-ante

  9. www.proventionconsortium.org

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