This document gives guidance on how to develop meaningful recovery activities and renewal initiatives
from any type of major emergency, disaster or crisis, no matter what type of impact or damage it has.
It provides guidelines on how to identify the short-term, transactional activities needed to reflect and
learn, review preparedness of parts of the system impacted by the crisis, and reinstate operations to
build preparedness to future emergencies. It distinguishes a longer-term perspective, called “renewal”,
and provides guidelines on how to identify visionary initiatives to be addressed through transformation
to change lives and futures.
The guidelines cover how, in both recovery and renewal, there is a need to identify scalable activity on
people, places, processes, power and partners.
This document is applicable to all organizations, particularly those involved in recovery and renewal
and that are responsible for human welfare and community development (e.g. public, voluntary,
community and social enterprise sectors).