The Overseas Development Institute's Humanitarian Policy Group has published a new Policy Brief: Untangling Early Recovery. This document provides an overview of early recovery, in preparation of up-coming HPG research on early recovery, stabilisation and transitions. Its main arguments are that:
- ‘Early recovery’ has functioned as a way to classify and conceive of a broad range of activities and strategies which seek to promote recovery in humanitarian and transitional settings. However, the added value of early recovery has yet to be consistently demonstrated.
- Attention to early recovery is part of a drive to better organise international responses to foster recovery from conflict. Policy-makers should understand the opportunities and tensions presented by different approaches, including humanitarian assistance, development, and stabilisation, peace-building and state-building.
- Policy-makers and practitioners must be specific in portraying problems and proposed solutions; early recovery has served as a catch-all term for very different issues related to recovery.
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