Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Disaster-struck communities often struggle to bounce back before the next hazard hits. Here are 3 reasons why governments should prioritize recovery readiness:
1. Avoid recreating risk: Hasty recovery efforts can leave the most vulnerable behind. Planning ahead reveals vulnerabilities, helping to create stronger disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies and minimizing future impacts. 🌪️
2. Shorten recovery timelines: Recovery readiness means streamlined processes, reduced delays, and faster mobilization of resources post-disaster. Time saved = lives and resources saved! ⏳
3. Promote inclusive recovery: Assessing readiness ensures that recovery plans are inclusive and gender-sensitive, fostering more equitable recovery efforts for everyone. 🤝
We can break the cycle of disaster, response, and recovery. Readiness for recovery is the key to unlocking a safer, stronger future. 🔑
#BuildBackBetter
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About UNDRR:
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has a big ambition: to help decision-makers across the globe better understand and act on risk. At UNDRR, we believe there is no such thing as a natural disaster. A natural hazard, such as a hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, or flood, only becomes a disaster when it impacts a community that is not adequately protected and whose population is vulnerable as a result of poverty, exclusion, or social disadvantage. We envision a world where disasters no longer threaten the well-being of people and the future of the planet. Sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda cannot be achieved without working towards the goal of building resilience.
Learn more about UNDRR: undrr.org
Learn more about disaster risk reduction: preventionweb.net
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Disaster-struck communities often struggle to bounce back before the next hazard hits. Here are 3 reasons why governments should prioritize recovery readiness:
1. Avoid recreating risk: Hasty recovery efforts can leave the most vulnerable behind. Planning ahead reveals vulnerabilities, helping to create stronger disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies and minimizing future impacts. 🌪️
2. Shorten recovery timelines: Recovery readiness means streamlined processes, reduced delays, and faster mobilization of resources post-disaster. Time saved = lives and resources saved! ⏳
3. Promote inclusive recovery: Assessing readiness ensures that recovery plans are inclusive and gender-sensitive, fostering more equitable recovery efforts for everyone. 🤝
We can break the cycle of disaster, response, and recovery. Readiness for recovery is the key to unlocking a safer, stronger future. 🔑
#BuildBackBetter
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Subscribe to UNDRR on YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCUw0G3AdE_0EDhcDPlJtJyA?sub_confirmation=1
Captions: Where possible we provide additional captions to make our videos more accessible to those who use assistive technology, such as screen readers. If you don't require the captions they can be toggled off using the CC button, usually at the bottom of the video display.
About UNDRR:
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has a big ambition: to help decision-makers across the globe better understand and act on risk. At UNDRR, we believe there is no such thing as a natural disaster. A natural hazard, such as a hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, or flood, only becomes a disaster when it impacts a community that is not adequately protected and whose population is vulnerable as a result of poverty, exclusion, or social disadvantage. We envision a world where disasters no longer threaten the well-being of people and the future of the planet. Sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda cannot be achieved without working towards the goal of building resilience.
Learn more about UNDRR: undrr.org
Learn more about disaster risk reduction: preventionweb.net
Sign up for updates: undrr.org/subscribe-undrr-updates
Follow:
linkedin.com/company/undrr
twitter.com/UNDRR
facebook.com/unisdr
