Globally, the approach towards
post-disaster restoration and rehabilitation has shifted to one of betterment
reconstruction. While disasters result in considerable disruption of normal
life, enormous suffering, loss of lives and property, global efforts consider
the recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction phase as an opportunity to
build back better integrating disaster risk reduction into development
measures, and making communities resilient to disasters. BBB is not limited to
the built environment and has a wide applicability encompassing the economy,
societal systems, institutions, and environment. The Sendai Framework envisages
that the stakeholders will be prepared for BBB after a disaster. Existing
mechanisms may require strengthening in order to
provide effective support and achieve
better implementation. Disaster recovery tends to be very difficult and
long-drawn out. The reconstruction will vary depending on the actual disaster,
location, 1Where ever SDMA is used, unless otherwise mentioned, it stands for
the nodal agency of the state, which may be SDMA, or others such as the
Commissioner of Relief, or the Department of Revenue, as applicable to the
particular state. pre-disaster conditions, and the potentialities that emerge
at that point of time. The NDMP provides a generalized framework for recovery
since it is not possible to anticipate all the possible elements of betterment
reconstruction.