Co-ordination of reconstruction

Responsibility for response and early recovery post disaster is well defined in the National Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan (MCDEM, 2006). However, responsibility for coordination and management of a major programme of reconstruction of housing and other infrastructure is not clear in the legislation and guidance and this lack of clarity have been proven to create barriers to reconstruction following previous disasters

The management and coordination of reconstruction following recent disaster events has fallen to insurance companies, the Earthquake Commission and local authorities; however not all of these entities has a specific remit to work outside of their own interests.

The research is trying to establish criteria for:

1. assessing capability to coordinate reconstruction and examining the potential impacts of jurisdictional boundaries in post-disaster situations

In order to reach this goal the following issues have been identified and ranked as high priority for the research:  

           D1. Establish criteria for assessing Local Government capability to coordinate reconstruction
           D2. Gap analysis for coordination capacity – function provision versus resources
           D3. Analysis of potential impacts of jurisdictional boundaries
           D4. Greater analysis of the issues inherent in the transition from response to recovery
           D5. Characteristics of leaders/leadership required for effective recovery

 Research objectives, outputs and estimates of the timescales