Initial recovery assistance means goods and services intended to restore or improve the pre-disaster living conditions of disaster-affected communities, including initiatives to increase resilience and reduce risk, provided for an initial period of time, as determined by the affected State, after the immediate needs of disaster-affected communities have been met.
Initial recovery assistance means goods, equipment, services and internationally donated funds intended to restore or improve the pre- disaster living conditions of disaster-affected communities, including initiatives to increase resilience to disasters and reduce disaster risk;
Initial recovery assistance means goods and services designed to restore or improve, to a defined level, the pre-disaster living conditions of disaster- affected persons, including initiatives to increase resilience and reduce risk, provided for an initial period of time set by the affected State.
More Definitions of Initial recovery assistance
Initial recovery assistance means goods and services intended to restore or improve the pre-disaster living conditions of disaster-affected communities, including initiatives to increase resilience and reduce risk, provided for an initial period of time, as determined by the affected State, after the immediate needs of disaster-affected communities have been met. The IDRL programme’s studies and consultations indicate that many of the most challenging legal issues tend to arise several weeks or months into a disaster response operation. Unfortunately, many existing international instruments in this area focus solely on the immediate relief period. The wording of this definition draws upon the definition of “recovery” offered by the UNISDR in its “Terminology: Basic Terms of Disaster Risk Reduction” (available at http://www.unisdr.org), which follows the growing international consensus that it makes little programmatic sense to entirely separate relief and recovery. Thus, some modern instruments have sought to address both relief and recovery activities. These include UN GA Res. 46/182 (1991), annex para. 9, which highlights the “clear relationship between emergency, rehabilitation and development” and emphasizes the need for measures to ensure smooth transitions “in ways that will be supportive of recovery and long-term development,” as well as the recent ASEAN Agreement, art. 1, which defines “Disaster Management” to cover the full range of activities from relief to recovery. On the one hand, the definition here takes a broad approach to recovery, including not only efforts to “restore” the status quo ante, but also those to improve the situation of stricken communities and to make them more resilient to future disasters. This is in line with the strategic goal of the Hyogo Framework of Action (2005), para. 12(c), to encourage “[t]he systematic incorporation of risk reduction approaches into the design and implementation of emergency preparedness, response and recovery programmes in the reconstruction of affected communities.” On the other hand, this definition also restricts itself to “initial recovery” which should have a limited time period relevant to the circumstances as determined by the affected State. This is because full “recovery” from a major disaster may take many years and even decades to achieve. While operational experiences clearly show that many of the facilities in Part V are needed in the medium term to ensure effective international recovery assistance operations...