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Prioritizing Recovery Spending: Lessons from the 2017 Peru Floods
| Globally, long-term disaster recovery efforts typically focus on rebuilding infrastructure - core services, markets, and transportation are fundamental to maintaining livelihoods and economic activity. However, as Peru designs and implements recovery plans in response to the 2017 flood, attention to a few additional principles will allow the country to leverage expenditures to deliver not just reconstruction but also build long-term resilience. | |
| Author | Practical Action;ISET;Zurich |
| Language | English |
| Published on | 2017 |
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