Natural Disaster Response : Lessons from Evaluations of the World Bank and Others
This document aims to provide a concise collection of those good practices and challenges that have recently been identified by evaluative work on natural disaster response of the World Bank, the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), and other major...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/621591468350106378/Natural-disaster-response-lessons-from-evaluations-of-the-World-Bank-and-others http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27353 |
| Summary: | This document aims to provide a concise
collection of those good practices and challenges that have
recently been identified by evaluative work on natural
disaster response of the World Bank, the Independent
Evaluation Group (IEG), and other major actors. It is hoped
that the lessons identified can be used by World Bank staff
engaged in work related to natural disasters, to gain
insights into approaches that may promote or hinder
effective assistance to partner countries. Although great
international attention is focused on the occurrence of
disasters and the short term response to them, this phase is
only part of the overall disaster management cycle. This
cycle includes three main phases pre-disaster, disaster
response, and post-disaster each of which has an appropriate
range of activities. Evaluations have provided many lessons
for this phase. However, these generally also carry over
into the post-disaster phase, and even further into the next
pre-disaster phase. Some of the lessons may partially
contradict each other (for example, the value of local
participation may cut across the benefits of speedy action),
which means that trade-offs must be developed for each
specific situation. |
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