“Accept and appreciate
complexity while doing recovery planning.” - Sarbjit
Singh Sahota, Emergency Specialist Disaster Risk
Reduction Section, UNICEF India
Disaster risk (shocks and stresses due
to natural & human made hazards, conflict, climate change) is an integral
part of the social, economic and environmental complexity. Any result-oriented
recovery planning & design should be based on synthesis of disaster risk
from a cross-sectoral perspective. Government led, interagency coordination for
recovery actions can be a critical success factor to consider the complexity
automatically to get results like:
- Situate the recovery plan within the develop continum of the disaster affected context.
- Build partnership between, NGOs, corporates and Government development functions (line departments) to deliver emergency services and recovery priorities.
- Expand the systemic limits of post disaster coordination and planning by leveraging Governments administrative/governance capacity.
- Access information from/through various development functions/systems of the Government.
Post-disaster Interagency Coordination
experience from India at District level suggested a strong way forward. E.g
Earthquake affected District Bhuj (2001-03), Tsunami affected district of
Nagapatinam (2005-07), Flashflood-Landslide affected districts of Rudraprayag,
Chamoli etc. (2013-14)
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