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Empowering and Engaging the Most Vulnerable -
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Reviving of Livelihoods and Local Economy -
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Urban Housing Reconstruction and Land Management -
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Environmentally Sensitive Reconstruction and Recovery -
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Delivering Sustainable Health and Education Services -
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Rebuilding Life Important Infrastructure: The Case of Water and Sanitation -
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Innovations in Disaster and Climate Risk Financing for Developing Countries -
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Needs Assessment and Planning for Building Back Better -
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Monitoring and Evaluation of Disaster Recovery Operations and Programs -
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Creating New Institutions for Reconstruction? Options and Trade-Offs -
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IT Innovations – Reconstruction 2.0 -
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Reconstruction and Fragile States -
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Lessons Learned from Large-Scale Reconstruction Programs
Welcome to the World Reconstruction Conference
The World Reconstruction Conference (WRC) was the first large-scale global conference focused on natural disaster recovery and reconstruction. Organized by the World Bank and the United Nations, the Conference was May 10-13, 2011 within the Third Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva. READ MORE >>
Share your Knowledge and Experience!
What have been the biggest issues in disaster recovery and reconstruction? What do you see as the critical reasons that reconstruction programs work or don’t work in your country? What needs to happen at the international level for recovery and reconstruction to be more effective? SHARE >>
Responding to Natural Disasters: A Long Ignored Development Challenge?
When new catastrophic events occur, the response of the affected country as well as the international community often appears to be ad-hoc and improvised. While guides and analyses exist at the operational level to some extent, they are not necessarily embedded in the larger recovery policy and strategy formulation. Have we learned the lessons of the past and what needs to be done better in the future? The WRC High-Level Policy Panel addressed...READ MORE
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