Guidance Note on Inter-Cluster Early Recovery

This revised Guidance Note on Early Recovery reflects progress in wider humanitarian thinking and policy since 2008 ACROSS the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), catalysed since 2010 through the Transformative Agenda process with associated revision of the protocols and tools guiding the international response process. This Guidance reflects agreements within the IASC and is grounded in the experience of practitioners concerning the most effective ways of implementing Early Recovery across all sectors of emergency response.

This Guidance is not intended as a step-by-step manual on how to develop and implement Early Recovery projects or on how to coordinate a cluster. More information on projects and the cluster can be found in agency training and cluster coordination manuals – references at the end of this guidance.