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Early recovery
The crucial link in crisis response
Headlines capture aid delivered and lives saved, but what happens after the cameras leave?
Families return to destroyed homes.
Children are out of school.
Markets and clinics lie in rubble.
Early recovery is the crucial link between immediate aid and sustainable development. From the first days of crisis, UNDP works with governments and communities on practical steps to restore livelihoods, dignity, and stability.
How UNDP Supports Early Recovery
- Restores energy, water, and health
- Rebuilds schools and builds resilient infrastructure
- Creates jobs and revives businesses
- Removes rubble and clears unexploded ordnance
- Restores safety, trust, and vital institutions
- Fast-tracks women’s leadership in recovery response
- Identifies and invests in the medium to longer-term investments needed to build sustainable pathways out of displacement.
Debris removal and mine action are critical for recovery in Ukraine, where contamination and destruction are widespread. Debris removal in Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine.
UNDP Ukraine/Dmytro Sazonov
Early Recovery
Supporting communities to get back on the path to development.
