Uttarakhand Disaster Recovery Project (UDRP) and Additional Financing (AF) have been implemented by the Government of Uttarakhand since 2013, with funding from the World Bank. This project focused on various aspects such as the restoration of housing and rural connectivity, riverbanks protection works, enhancing community resilience, and strengthening the state's emergency response capabilities.
Uttarakhand Disaster Preparedness and Resilience Project (U-PREPARE) constitutes a large multi-sectoral engagement on risk and vulnerability reduction with assistance for reconstructing damaged resilient infrastructure, restoring connectivity, enhancing medical health facilities, strengthening SDRF & Fire services, early warning & response system, establishing Hydro meteorological network, strengthening & upgradation of State command and Control Centre of Forest department, upgradation of existing & construction of new Forest Crew Stations and improving technical support for managing future disaster risks. The Project design has incorporated lessons learned from previous national and global post-disaster recovery projects to ensure that the recovery is targeted, e ective and is built back “smarter” in order to build resilience of local communities to future disasters.
The primary bene ciaries are the communities in the State and tourists that would bene t from the construction of bridges, slope protection, retro tting of hospital buildings, strengthening of SDRF & re services, management of forest res, strengthening early warning system & response capacity. It also includes research studies to plan the public expenditure with respect to climate considerations and also proposes for Road Asset Management & sustainable management for forest biomass for generating livelihood through community participation. By strengthening disaster risk management systems and institutions the Project has the potential to bene t the entire State of Uttarakhand.