Chapter 5: Evaluation Highlights • An immediate response that ignores local power structures, social groups, and differences in vulnerability can make recovery more difficult. • Participation by local leaders and communities can help ensure an effective recovery. • In housing, the goal should be to help the disaster homeless, focus on the poorest, and encourage mitigation measures that will help reduce the impact of future disasters. • When relocation is required, care is needed to ensure that those relocated have jobs and an environment that offers the potential to rebuild social cohesion. • Disaster impacts and recovery vary, depending on social vulnerability and level of risk. • Cash support can be vital to the recovery of the poor. • Women’s particular vulnerability can be addressed through improved data gathering, targeting, and equitable treatment.
Hazards of Nature, Risks to Development: An IEG Evaluation of WB Assistance for Natural Disasters
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