Lessons from Asia: Post-Disaster Recovery | In Asia: 3) Work through and empower local organizations and institutions on good governance to ensure sustained recovery.
Before bringing in outside help, first identify local organizations and individuals that are experienced in disaster preparedness, management, or emergency response.
Citizen participation in development planning helps ensure that locally-identified needs are prioritized for funding, and can ameliorate oversight and transparency concerns between funders, local authorities, and intended beneficiaries of aid, which is essential for long-term sustainability.
Empowering local government leaders improves longer-term capacity to respond to local needs. This can often be the slowest part of post-disaster recovery, but as in post-tsunami Sri Lanka, when local leaders were struggling to respond to their community’s needs, The Asia Foundation made a commitment to work through these local institutions instead of seeking short-term gains of going around them to provide services directly to citizens.
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