Lessons on Recovery from Mega-Disasters

Date & Time:
Thursday 23 May (14:00-14:55)

Room:
C-CCV

Participation:
Open

Organizer:
Government of Japan, International Recovery Platform

Description

The side event will highlight key strategic recommendations for more explicit provisions on recovery and 
reconstruction in a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (HFA2). The bases of the strategic recommendations are the lessons on recovery from mega-
disasters. Valuable lessons on recovery by national and local 
governments, including Japan’s lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake, will be presented.

The side event is expected to further explore measures for integrating recovery in development planning as well as efforts towards effective recovery strategy and frameworks. The recovery and reconstruction strategies from the Canterbury earthquake in New Zealand and the relevance of Recovery Framework to facilitate reconstruction from hurricane Sandy in the United States will also be shared. The aim is to recognise the role of recovery as an essential element that needs to be explicitly stated in the HFA2. Moreover, the event will be an occasion to launch the publication on “Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake: Lessons for HFA2” and identify other tools, knowledge products, and advocacy materials for effective and resilient recovery.

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