Early Recovery Cluster

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As part of ongoing efforts to improve the timeliness and effectiveness of the humanitarian response, the UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee developed an initiative to strengthen leadership and accountability in nine key “clusters”:

Protection
Camp coordination and management
Water, sanitation and hygiene
Health
Emergency Shelter
Nutrition
Emergency telecommunications
Logistics
Early recovery

The early recovery cluster is a complex area that is critical when linking immediate responses to disasters with medium and long-term recovery efforts. UNDP is the designated lead agency for this cluster.

Working with 17 humanitarian and development partners, UNDP identified critical gaps in early recovery and prepared a plan that identified priority actions and resource requirements to improve capacities and apply the cluster approach to crisis situations. The Cluster Working Group on Early Recovery applied its key strategies during assistance efforts for the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, playing a key role in coordinating early recovery activities, conducting a joint needs assessment and producing a UN System Early Recovery Framework^[1]. The early recovery cluster also developed the Early Recovery Guidance Note^[2] in response to repeated requests from practitioners working in early recovery for greater clarity and guidance.

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