Post-Disaster Economic Recovery And Sustainable Livelihood Restoration

INTRODUCTION

This training aims to enhance the capacities of humanitarian workers and practitioners in designing, implementing and evaluating Sustainable Livelihoods and Economic Recovery programmes based on disaster risk reduction and Sustainable Development principles. There is a growing recognition of the need to implement sustainable development activities after disaster and emergencies as part of economic recovery programs. This course provides the techniques and means to do so which are often not known to those responsible for post-disaster recovery. The training intends to bridge this gap by building the capacities of practitioners in the design and implementation of post-disaster economic recovery programs/interventions that integrate Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction. It will improve their understanding of livelihood diversification, skills training, etc. and also provide them with tools which can facilitate decision making related to economic recovery that result in sustainable livelihoods and economies by:

• Enhancing the resilience of communities to future climatic change events;
• Creating a stronger infrastructure;
• Strengthening institutions against the eventualities of climate change; and
• Enabling sustainable recovery.

Participants of the training will contribute to building capacities of respective communities in recovering effectively from disasters and building resilience of affected communities in the long-term.

DURATION

5 days.

COURSE OUTLINE

Module1:

Understanding Disaster, Economic Recovery and Sustainable Livelihood Restoration

• The concept of disaster, elements at risk, disaster risk reduction, sustainable development
• Core principles of disaster, disaster risk reduction, sustainable development
• Basic concepts: Disaster and disaster risk management
• Linkages between Early Recovery, Vulnerability Reduction and Disaster Risk Reduction

Module 2:

Early Recovery

• Assessing the economic impacts of a disaster
• Small business assistance and industry recovery (health)
• Emergency employment, cash for work and start-up grants to recapitalize local businesses;
• Debris management, access and rebuilding infrastructure;
• Local governance support, strengthening local government capacity for relief and recovery planning
• Coordination and implementation, improving the capacity for local risk management.

Module 3:

Development of recovery networks

• Infrastructure and building back better communities
• community recovery committees and training
• Individual, community and organizational preparedness
• Community-Based Preparedness Committee

Module 4:

Tools for designing Sustainable Development strategies and roadmaps

• Needs assessments and costing
• Monitoring Development: setting indicators
• Goal-based partnerships
• Strategic planning for disaster recovery
• Course Tasks:

Module 5:

Resilience building

• Economic diversification
• Economic Resilience
• Proactive disaster risk management
• Neighborhood revitalization