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Emergency response and recovery
Disaster response and recovery includes the support of disaster affected communities by addressing the rebuilding of their livelihoods and the reconstruction of infrastructure.This section presents needs assessments, case studies and lessons learned relating to the support and restoration of communities following past natural disasters. It also identifies best practices vital to the process of response and recovery, and highlights reconstruction frameworks important for future learnings.
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Needs assessment & coordination
- IASC Initial Rapid Assessment Tool
- Emergency response Supply Chain assessment
- Coordination of international humanitarian assistance in tsunami-affected countries
- The role of needs assessment in the tsunami response
- Links between relief, rehabilitation and development in the tsunami response
- First needs assessment reporting template
- UN-HABITAT: Vulnerability assessment tools
Emergency response
- Victorian bushfires: Disaster Risk Management (DRM) lessons to consider from overseas
- Cyclone Nargis: lessons for operational agencies
- Cooperation Agreements for Emergency Response Cluster Evaluation Pakistan earthquake
- Interpreting & using mortality data in humanitarian emergencies
- Learning from previous earthquakes
- The shelter-in-place decision: all things considered
- After the cameras have gone: children in disasters
- Cash-based responses in emergencies
- New ZealandÂ’s holistic framework for disaster recovery
- Disaster resilience through local economic activity in Phuket
- Indonesia earthquake 2006 response plan revision
- Clean or corrupt - tsunami aid in Aceh
- From disaster to reconstruction - the ADB's response to the Asian tsunami
- ACIAR's tsunami response
- The Indian Ocean tsunami crisis: humanitarian dimensions
- Australia's Response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Standards, codes & best practice
- IASC Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action, Women, Girls, Men and Boys: Different Needs, Equal Opportunities
- Preventing corruption in humanitarian assistance: final research report
- Being prepared to go on assignment
- Natural disaster relief and recovery arrangements: community recovery package guidelines 2007
- The preparation of volunteers for deployment in emergencies
- Minimum standards for education in emergencies
- Sphere humanitarian charter and minimum standards in disaster response
- Protection: an ALNAP guide for humanitarian emergencies
Recovery and reconstruction frameworks
- Community recovery after the February 2009 Victorian bushfires: a rapid review
- Reconstruction after a major disaster: lessons from the post-tsunami experience in Indonesia, Sri Lanka & Thailand
- Impact of the conflict, the tsunami & reconstruction on poverty in Aceh
- The livelihood assessment tool-kit: analysing & responding to the impact of disasters
- Standards put to the test: implementing the INEE minimum standards for education in emergencies
- Impact of the tsunami response on local and national capacities
- Aid and security after the Tsunami
- Learning lessons from disaster recovery: the case of Bangladesh
- Learning from previous recovery operations
- Lessons from natural disasters and emergency reconstruction
- Tsunami emergency: lessons from previous natural disasters
- Flood disasters: learning from previous relief and recovery operations