Resilient Recovery

UNDP defines recovery as a transformative process through which households and communities rebuild their assets, restore their livelihoods and strengthen their capacities to manage the impacts of future crisis. Resilient Recovery is an inclusive set of interventions which improves the well-being of women, men, children and people with disabilities who are affected by crisis, seeking to build the resilience of communities.

UNDP occupies a unique place and leading role in supporting resilient recovery through its mandate, expertise and national presence. As reflected in the Strategic Plan for 2022-2025, UNDP aims to strengthen the capacity of countries, institutions and people to prevent, mitigate and respond to diverse risks including crisis, conflict, disasters, climate and social and economic shocks, thus recognizing the organization’s mandate in recovery as conferred by various resolutions of the UN General Assembly.

UNDP’s Resilient Recovery Offer is two-fold: what comes before and what comes after a hazardous event, otherwise known as preparedness and post-disaster recovery. UNDP supports resilient recovery of communities by providing assistance for livelihoods, housing, infrastructure and training on disaster resilient infrastructure. Partnering with national governments and working alongside local governments, NGOs, civil society groups and private sector, UNDP has developed a strong pool of expertise and advanced the practice of recovery. Key areas of work are:

• Advance Preparation: Preparing countries for recovery processes well before disasters strike. This includes making sure that national governments and communities have the institutions and pol icy and standby capacities to respond and recover from a disaster. It aims to reduce impact of disaster by promoting resilient infrastructure, guidelines for risk informed recovery, building capacities of government officials to assess disaster impacts and skills in disaster resilient construction technologies.
• Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA): Assessing damage, loss and recovery needs through Post Disaster Needs Assessments (PDNA); developing recovery plans and frameworks and assisting governments to mobilize resources.
• Risk-Informing Recovery: Recognizing that effective recovery processes must promote practices that reduce the communities’ hazard risks, the team supports integration of risk reduction features that also nature based to avoid rebuilding risks and to enhance safety of communities to impacts of climate change and geophysical hazards.
• Technical and Financial Support: Extending technical and financial support for medium and long term recovery programmes, including deploying experts to develop recovery institutions, policies and personnel to assist national and local governments in implementing and monitoring disaster recovery programmes .