Climate resilience and disaster recovery in Kerala and the BBB Framework

Kerala, a state on the southwestern Malabar Coast of India, though one of its most progressive states in social welfare and quality of life, is a highly flood-prone area.

Flood is the state’s most common disaster. From June 2018 to 18th August, the regions received record rainfall – or 164% above average rainfall, resulting in their worst flood experience ever since 1924. Excessive rain caused the area to open its dam that flooded more than one thousand villages.

Three hundred landslides also occurred, which, along with the flood, has killed almost 500 people, displaced more than one million people, and destroyed around 17 thousand km of roads making relief operation difficult.

Over 5 million residents have lost their property and assets, and placed more than 1 million in relief camps, and destroyed.

Following the immediate emergency and relief response after a disaster, the next critical step is the recovery period.

The post-recovery phase involves the following: reconstruction and recovery of infrastructure, properties, business, and essential services, addressing the communities’ psychological and social well-being, addressing pre-disaster weakness in infrastructures and assets, and incorporating resilience rebuilding restoration to ensure that it can withstand against future disasters.  

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