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	Build Back Better Recovery Evaluation	Sendai Framework Indicator Monitoring
Field	Disaster Studies	Disaster Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2014	2015
Originator	Sandeeka Mannakkara, Suzanne Wilkinson & Regan Potangaroa	United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Type	Principle-based evaluation framework for resilient post-disaster recovery	Indicator-based monitoring framework for global disaster-risk-reduction targets
Seminal source	Mannakkara, S., Wilkinson, S., & Potangaroa, R. (2014). Build back better: implementation in Victorian bushfire reconstruction. Disasters, 38(2), 267-290.	United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015). Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. UNDRR, Geneva.
Aliases	BBB Evaluation, Build Back Better Assessment, Resilient Recovery Evaluation	Sendai Framework Monitor, Disaster Risk Reduction Target Monitoring, Sendai Indicators
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Summary	Build Back Better (BBB) recovery evaluation is a principle-based framework for assessing whether post-disaster reconstruction reduces future risk rather than merely restoring pre-disaster conditions. Formalized by Sandeeka Mannakkara, Suzanne Wilkinson, and Regan Potangaroa and demonstrated in the 2009 Victorian bushfire reconstruction, the framework organizes recovery around three categories: disaster risk reduction (safer structures and siting), community recovery (social and economic restoration), and effective implementation (stakeholder engagement, regulation, and monitoring). Under each category sit concrete principles against which a recovery effort is evaluated, comparing what was achieved with what resilient recovery requires and with the pre-disaster baseline. Endorsed within the Sendai Framework and embedded in post-disaster needs assessment, BBB evaluation turns the slogan 'build back better' into an auditable standard for resilient reconstruction.	Sendai Framework indicator monitoring is the standardized methodology by which countries measure progress in reducing disaster risk under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, adopted by United Nations member states and coordinated by UNDRR. The framework sets seven global targets — reducing disaster mortality, the number of affected people, direct economic loss, and damage to critical infrastructure and basic services, while increasing national and local risk-reduction strategies, international cooperation, and access to multi-hazard early warning. Progress against these targets is measured through 38 agreed indicators, populated from national disaster loss databases and policy records, normalized where appropriate by population or GDP, and compared against a 2005-2015 baseline. Reported through the Sendai Framework Monitor, the system makes disaster-risk reduction measurable and comparable across countries and links directly to indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals.