The present document aims at providing guiding principles and approaches for the immediate post-disaster recovery phase, based on experiences and lessons learnt by UNDP in recovery operations over the past five years. It also attempts to outline an institutional framework for recovery, in the hope that countries with frequent or recurrent disasters will be encouraged to consider more permanent arrangements, with clear institutional roles and responsibilities for recovery as part of their broader risk reduction, disaster preparedness and contingency planning process.

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Directrices para la recuperación posdesastre - Versión 1 - Febrero 2005
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This publication has been elaborated under the framework of the Preparatory Assistance "Elaboration of the Andean Strategy for Disaster Prevention and Relief". The General Secretariat of the Andean Community of Nations (SG-CAN), with technical and financial support from the Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UNDP Representations in the Sub-region’s countries, takes de responsibility of promoting this regional initiative, with the objective of making it available for different regional, national and local actors linked with this issue.

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This document has been elaborated under the framework of the Regional Project "Systematization and Dissemination of Best Practices in Disaster Relief and Local Risk Management in the Andean Region". The Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) takes the responsibility of promoting this regional initiative, with the objective of making it available for different regional, national and local actors linked with these issues. This project is also of interest for the Disaster Preparedness Program of the Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Community (DIPECHO), who promoted the idea and, together with BCPR-UNDP, provided the financial support required for its execution.

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Developed by CEPREDENAC and UNDP/BCPR, the publication “Regional Programme for Risk Management in Central America; Ideas and Notions relating to Concept and Practice” is targeted at actors that intervene in local development, offering a series of guidelines that can aid future development actions in contributing to the reversion of the risk accumulation process to disasters. More specifically, actors will gain knowledge of lessons from a series of experiences that describe the outcomes and limitations of local risk management, and that also provide a measurement of pending challenges. This publication aims to facilitate a continual reflection by local level risk reduction actors on the acquired facts, and steer risk reduction into the forefront of territorial management actions, consistently promoting a sustainable development framework.

The product of a collaborative reflection by local level risk reduction actors, this publication is comprised of a collection of more than one hundred (100) local risk management experiences within the region, from which the most representative of transmitting lessons learned in disaster risk reduction, were systematized, to ultimately be replicated in development processes.

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Central America - April-December 2003
Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

The Mitch +5 Forum Report compiles the different contributions of the Central American countries, international organizations, NGOs, and other support institutions that participated in the forum, and presents the principal conclusions, recommendations, and goals in the area of natural disaster reduction in the region. Central America, one of the regions most susceptible to the occurrence of natural disasters due to its geographical positioning, was highly vulnerable to natural disaster threats when Hurricane Mitch hit in October of 1998. Mitch was responsible for one of the worst disasters in the region, causing great human, social, economic and environmental losses, and increasing the levels of poverty in these countries; and made evident the high level of vulnerability of the region in the face of natural phenomena of its magnitude.

Since then, important efforts were made to improve risk management in different areas of Central America, by establishing agreements and commitments to link disaster reduction with environmental issues, climate change, hydrological resources, food security, and production, economy, finance and social matters. Nonetheless, such efforts had not halted the accumulation processes of risks and vulnerabilities, neither at the regional nor national level. With the purpose of analyzing this situation and in light of the fact that the year 2003 marked the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Mitch’s occurrence, a collaboration between CEPREDENAC and UNDP fostered the promotion of the Mitch+5 Regional Forum. The culmination of a participatory process of national proposals and meetings, this event aimed at reflecting on and considering the advances and challenges of each one of the countries with respect to the implementation of four components of the Strategic Framework for Vulnerability and Disaster Reduction in Central America. (...)

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El Atlas de Peligros Naturales del Perú que ha sido elaborado conjuntamente entre INDECI y el PNUD-Perú y con otras 13 instituciones científicas – tecnológicas que durante un año y medio recopilaron información sobre fenómenos naturales potencialmente dañinos de carácter geológico, hidrológico, meteorológico, sísmico, volcánico y oceanográfico, así como peligros de otro tipo como epidemias, pandemias y contaminación ambiental. (...)

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