Technical Assistance for Post-Disaster Recovery

The literature on technical assistance (TA) makes scant reference to post-disaster contexts, focusing instead on post-conflict and fragile situations. Likewise, the literature on early recovery focuses much more on post-conflict rather than post-disaster situations, and makes little explicit reference to TA or capacity building in either context. In the few instances where capacity building in post-disaster contexts is discussed, it tends to be in the relation to immediate humanitarian assistance and community-level capacity building, which is usually carried out by NGOs.

 

Due to the paucity of literature making explicit recommendations for technical assistance to support long-term recovery in post-disaster conflicts, this report is limited to the more general literature on donor support to early and long-term recovery in post-disaster conflicts, and the literature analyzing what makes technical assistance effective in any context. Both of these literatures contain lessons which could apply the delivery of TA in post-disaster contexts.