Recovery Institutions toBuild Back Better
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Platform

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9-12 November 2019

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AgendaKnowledge
ManagementPartnerships
andCollaboration

Engagement

A network for Build Back Better

GovernancePhoto Credit: UN Environment

Lessons and experience transformed
into guidance• Ownership, Agency, Inclusion• Communication• Capacity Building• Pre-Disaster Recovery
Planning• Accountability

Guidance Notes on Recovery
Governance• Common issues encounteredin pre-disaster recovery
planning• Menu of options drawn fromexperience and supported bycases, demonstrating how
common issues have beenaddressed

Guidance Notes on Recovery
Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning• Disaster Recovery Frameworks• Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning• Post-Disaster Needs
Assessment• Institutionalization of Recovery
Processes and Policies

Words into Action
Build Back Better

Large-Scale
Disasters remain
largely unplanned
eventsRecovery involves
more decisions,resources, partners,
complexity than weplan forRecoverycontinues tobe lessprepared forthan response“Time compression”
of recovery

IRP Governance KP 2.0
Institutionalize Flexibility• Quick and flexible source of funds for eligible countries
affected by disasters until funds from other sources
become available• Near-instant financing available when a participating
developing state declares a disaster• Approval for financing happens pre-disaster• With no delay for much needed funds, reduces need forreallocation of funds from other priorities, no waiting forlegislation or extraordinary budget allocations, can help
get things going while waiting for additional funds

Photo Credit: Asian Development Bank

Asian Development Bank:
Contingent Disaster Funding••••Kokusai Kogyo was one of 7 companies with a pre-agreement
to conduct emergency aerial photography survey with GoJ
Agreed on quality standards, work processes, contact
persons, and other details in advance. Constantly updating
and improving procedures, they organized the emergency
survey the day of the GEJ earthquake
Photos were also used in an expedited disaster damage
certification process by local governments, so that residents
could prove eligibility for insurance and tax relief claims assoon as possible.
They were able adjust to unforeseen problems in thisdisaster, such as seismic activities large enough and shifts inpermanent survey control points, through better training andsurprise scenarios

Pre-arrangements: Fast-tracking private-sector
involvement Kokusai Kogyo

Photo Credit: Kokusai Kogyo• The Commission on Audit simplified the process andextended the availability window of funds to ensurethat national and local governments can easily allocate
resources for disaster-related activities.
• Balances the need for timely response to disasters
with the governance requirements set at the centrallevel.
• Corrects problems experienced in Haiyan, where local
governments were not able to quickly access funds
due to long-standing issues on procedural lapses anddeficiencies in fully accounting for internal funds used
for disaster risk management

Photo Credit: UNDP

Typhoon Haiyan Recovery:
Reducing Certification Requirements

• In Aceh, BRR introduced shortcuts in procurement
procedures (e.g., exemptions regular tender processes forhousing and infrastructure, reducing the timeframe by morethan half)• It created the “Integrated Team” (Tim Terpadu), a ‘one-stop’
shop for processing a wide-variety of government permits
covering immigration, taxation and customs, forestry, police,
and registration of international organizations coming toIndonesia

Photo Credit: BRR

Indian Ocean Tsunami Recovery:
Streamlined Processes for Procurement

Institutionalizing
Flexibility to Build BackBetter
International Recovery
Platform

World Bosai Forum
9-12 November 2019

Paul Rosenberg
w: www.recoveryplatform.org
e: paulelliott.rosenberg@un.org@IRP_Secretariat