Disaster Recovery

The HPC world is waking up to the importance of storage as an integral part of an HPC solution. Many HPC sites are realizing that HPC class storage coupled with classic enterprise features such as snapshots, replication, disaster recovery, and ILM (Integrated Life Cycle Management), can result in the maximum performance and uptime for HPC applications. However, the biggest problem that HPC centers face is that they don’t understand how their applications perform IO (i.e. IO pattern). This means that they can’t define meaningful requirements for HPC storage. Knowledge of the IO patterns allows better definition of requirements including both time and money. This paper presents a technique for obtaining IO information and analyzing it to present IO pattern information. The technique is independent of the application.

This article describes a state-supported, multiuniversity, interdisciplinary effort to address unmet disaster recovery needs identified by six hard-hit, low-capacity North Carolina communities following Hurricane Matthew. At the request of the director of the North Carolina Division of Emergency Management and the state governor, university officials created a team of faculty, practitioners, and students called the Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative (HMDRRI). This 2-year program delivered research, teaching, and engagement activities of the sort that are not typically undertaken by federal or state emergency management agencies, insurance providers, or nonprofit organizations. HMDRRI also offered graduate students in land-use planning, landscape architecture, and architecture opportunities to help provide community assistance under the supervision and mentoring of faculty and practitioners. An overarching goal of the program was to help build greater rural...

Most risk management activity in the healthcare sector is retrospective, based on learning from experience. This is feasible where the risks are routine, but emergency operations plans (EOP) guide the response to events that are both high risk and rare. Under these circumstances, it is important to get the response right the first time, but learning from experience is usually not an option. This case study presents the rationale for taking a proactive approach to improving healthcare organizations' EOP. It demonstrates how the Prospective Hazard Analysis (PHA) Toolkit can drive organizational learning and argues that this toolkit may lead to more efficient improvement than drills and exercises.

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2008年5月12日四川省汶川地區發生大地震，地震對自然環境和 社會環境產生極大破壞。由於家園毀損、鄰里缺失、親人離去、令災 區社區的社會功能大幅消失，亟需重建。從2008年到2010年中國政府 撥付災後重建基金達1,950億，按照「三年重建兩年基本完成」目 標，絕大多數災後重建項目將在2010年12月前完工。 雖然社區重建 中的學校、房屋、道路、水電、通訊等硬件設施有快速的成果，但社區中的支援網絡、家庭及社區的社會資本、經濟生計、少數民族文化保育等人文價值、制度及文化的重建更為重要。本文將以文獻回顧及 親身探訪的研究方法反思有關災區「人文重建」的方向及重要性，亦涉及社會工作者在當中的重要角色。

There’s a new wind of change in the IT industry today. It’s called virtualization. Virtualization is a software technology designed to let us run multiple virtual machines with different operating systems on a single physical machine.Virtualization is changing almost every aspect of how we manage systems, storage, networks, security, operating systems, and applications. Server consolidation reduces maintenance cost while high availability and live migration allow us to minimize the downtime. With virtual machines, recovering from failure and disaster recovery is easier and more affordable than ever.

This report describes the results of 14 case studies carried out with organisations in Christchurch and Auckland to further inform and refine the Business Behaviours Module of MERIT. The Business Behaviours Module has been developed based on extensive statistical analysis of the responses of 541 Canterbury organisations to a 2013 survey on their experiences following the 2010/11 Canterbury earthquakes. We needed to test the applicability of the Business Behaviours Module to other types of disruption and to other urban locations. To do this we undertook a series of paired case studies, in two study regions, Canterbury and Auckland. Seven organisations that completed the Economics of Resilient Infrastructure (ERI) Canterbury business behaviours survey were initially recruited. Selection was based on their reported levels of disruption and to get representation from a variety of sectors, size and type of organisations. For each Canterbury case study a corresponding ‘pair’ organisation in Auckland was selected, with similar demographic features. A semi structured interview was carried out with the organisations exploring their responses to a number of actual and hypothetical infrastructure disruption scenarios.

Overall, the case studies revealed few geographic differences in how organisations in Christchurch and Auckland respond to disruption. Sector had far greater significance in predicting likely response to a disruption than location. With only a few exceptions, once an initial understanding of the business had been developed, the interviewer could have answered 80% of the remaining questions accurately. This supports the idea that the Business Behaviours Module developed from the Christchurch earthquake data is transferable to other urban contexts. However, the survey and case study data are based on large urban environments and further research is needed to ensure these findings are applicable within smaller communities with a greater rural interface.

The case studies revealed areas where the Business Behaviours Module needs to change. For example, there is a need to adjust the relationships for very short-term infrastructure disruptions; in these cases the business behaviours model predicts better performance than reality in the short term, followed by a slow recovery back to full operability. In reality, shortterm disruptions (e.g., a 36 hour electricity outage) creates a more pronounced impact on organisations during the period of disruption, but they are then able to recover back to full operability almost immediately after infrastructure services resume. To account for this we will adjust the Business Behaviours Module to differentiate between short-term and longerterm disruptions, with a step function included for very-short term disruptions. Another change needed is to adjust the operability curves so that once an organisation has achieved close to full operability, then full operability is assumed. Otherwise the asymptotic nature of the operability curves means that an organisation approaches, but never returns to full operability.

Through the case studies we also identified a number of subtleties around how organisations responded to the Christchurch business behaviours survey. We will now use these insights to stress test the Business Behaviours Module relationships. For example, we would like to recheck the model for the influence of relocation and temporary closure on reported levels of disruption due to water, sewage and electricity outages. We will also review the weightings of disruption levels in the calculation of experienced disruption, in particular the weighting of ‘slight’. We also need to review the water infrastructure relationships for sectors not critically v ERI Research Report 2016/01 dependent on water, such as transportation, postal and warehousing, professional services, wholesale trade, information, media and telecommunications, and financial and insurance services.

Taking our case study organisations through a variety of different scenarios also revealed interesting differences in how the effects of different types of infrastructure disruption are ‘felt’ by businesses. For example, disruption to port services is experienced predominantly as an increased cost of doing business, rather than as an inhibitor to an organisation’s ability to operate. As such, a better place to model the effects of port disruptions may be in the Economic Module within MERIT rather than the Business Behaviours Module. The same may apply for road based freight transport, but the overall effect of road disruption (which goes beyond just freight movements to include the inability of staff and customers to travel) needs further exploration.

The case studies also revealed a number of potential business behaviour ‘levers’ to include within MERIT. For example, our case studies emphasised the importance of the Earthquake Support Subsidy to the Canterbury recovery. The provision (or not) of government support for businesses during recovery will be an important lever to include in future versions of MERIT. There is also potential to include an on/off variable for availability of mitigation measures for particular types of infrastructure: that is if mitigation is in place, there would be no disruption to operability.

The case studies support the case for including the potential for sustained productivity improvements following disaster events within MERIT, but there is a need to better understand the extent (percent) and nature (production recipe, restructuring, staff working hours) of these productivity gains before they can be incorporated.

The next step in refining the Business Behaviours Module is to carry out the further analysis suggested in this report and implement the recommended changes. Further testing and validation will then take place when a testing version of MERIT, incorporating the Business Behaviours Module, is available in early 2016.

Computer security incident response teams need to track inc ide ts as they develop. To support day-to-day operations, teams need to be able to generate quick overviews of ongoing incidents, and they mus t be upported in their daily work by automating as much routine work as poss ible. AIRT is a web-based system to provide incident tracking capabili ties to computer security incident response teams. Its design goals include to provide a comprehensive incident management console, ability to quickl y associate external teams with IP addresses, the ability to record an inciden t in 30 seconds after receiving it, provisions for PGP signed mail, and more . This paper presents AIRT, its goals, architecture and its functionali ty.

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It is my great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 6th ICT Forum that will be held in October 14-16, 2014 in Nis, Serbia.
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One of the key roles of a destination marketing organization (DMO) is to portray their destination in such a way that it is both appealing and inviting to their existing and potential tourism market. A challenge faced by a DMO in the regional Victorian destination of Gippsland in Australia, is the fact that they also have to manage unanticipated sudden changes in market perceptions that may occur in response to a disastrous event. The reoccurring natural disasters of this region (fires, floods and drought)—the most recent being the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, deemed Australia's worst natural disaster in history—make it imperative that DMOs can respond effectively. This article presents the findings of an exploratory research project designed to investigate the tourism market's response to this particular disastrous event. The primary aim of the research was to better understand how a large-scale disaster impacts upon the tourist's destination image and visitation intentions, and the role of the media in these deliberations. Focus group research reveals the post-disaster media interpretations, images, and visitation intentions of intrastate and interstate, regional and metropolitan tourists. Differences are observed in relation to the participants' geographic location and distance from the fires and their understandings of the event, including their reflections on media coverage. Varying perceptions among the participants of the impact of the fires, the travel risk, and subsequent travel intentions are discussed. Managerial implications relating to media management and the refinement of future disaster management strategies are also presented.

On August 29th 2005 Hurricane Katrina triggered a catastrophic disaster in the city of New Orleans, followed by a dysfunctional response and a flawed recovery. The flood evacuation and resulting nationwide diaspora led to a dramatic decline in the number of residents. Recently the city reached 90 percent of its pre-Katrina population count, some neighborhoods even report population growth. Yet the share of African Americans is lower, and the departure of poor and black residents after Katrina has changed the face of the city. Some of the lessons learned after Katrina include the realization that disasters aren’t “natural”, but rather the conjunction of at-risk settlement patterns, flawed planning, and vulnerability. This recognition also contributed to developing new strategies aimed at strengthening resilience.

Problem, research strategy, and findings: U.S. communities rarely plan for recovery after a disaster, but planners have the skills to help communities redevelop, particularly in rebuilding housing, a key to community recovery. Planners, however, need appropriate and timely data on initial damage and rebuilding over time to apply for available funding, determine needs for temporary housing, address equity issues, develop appropriate policy interventions, track progress, and communicate transparently with all stakeholders. There is no accepted cost-effective and systematic method of providing those data. We developed a scalable method in which we photograph and assess the extent of home damage and rebuilding by reorienting existing damage assessment methods to provide data that can be linked to GIS and other local data to meet planning needs. We test the utility of our approach in West (TX), the site of a catastrophic fertilizer facility explosion in 2013. We compare our damage assessments to county property tax reappraisals after the disaster, finding that our approach is more accurate, generally identifying less damage and greater rebuilding than the county assumed. We conclude that our method improves on windshield surveys and other suggested methods of collecting damage and rebuilding data; it can provide efficient assessments of damage and rebuilding in technological disasters.

Takeaway for practice: We created a simple and cost-effective method of assessing initial damage to homes after a disaster and of measuring the extent of rebuilding. This method provides photos and easy-to-understand data that planners can use to meet multiple reporting requirements, to reassess redevelopment strategies, and to report progress to stakeholders.

Enterprises need to prepare themselves for versatile threats such as problems with information systems, fires, nature catastrophes and loosing their key persons. To overcome these threats, the enterprises should have plans to continue their business. So far, there is only little research done on business continuity and business recovery. The current study aims to add scientific knowledge with an empirical study that was
carried out in a private enterprise. The research project was a part of a greater scheme that was initiated to investigate the current procedures and to improve and design a recovery plan to be implemented for the whole enterprise.

It is now well known that the world community must share the risks and hazards deriving from climate change and, more generally, from the environment. The fact that just a few months ago, at the end of summer 2019, the European Bank for reconstruction and development (EBRD), issued the first World's first dedicated climate resilience bond confirms the thesis according to which financial, social and economic instruments are always most necessary for the development of society and to avoid that natural hazards can, as occurred in the past, cause extremely heavy damages with negative repercussions on every single area of a community. Starting from the characteristics of resilience bonds and reinsurance, the paper seeks to highlight the potential advantages that would derive from a systematic application of recursive contractual instruments (smart contracts). The authors focused on the study of the projection of financial and quantitative data of resilience and catastrophe bonds on ...

Directly after the Great East Japan disaster of 2011, myriad efforts in the disaster area drew volunteers seeking to help from all over the country. Buddhist priests were only one segment of the volunteer base, but a critical one for the role they play socially in conducting funerals and memorial services. Buddhist priest volunteers were suddenly confronted with horrible stories of suffering, and often did not know how to respond. Several with experience in psychology or spiritual care organized brief training sessions so volunteers would be armed with, at the very least, fundamental concepts of listening skills and ethical care provision. As the months passed, however, many of those leading these temporary endeavors began to realize a deeper need for long-term, recurring programs that provided a more in-depth and comprehensive training.

This dissertation aims to explore how Japanese Buddhists have adapted chaplaincy to the needs of contemporary Japan and how the field has developed within Japan’s particular socio-cultural circumstances. It does so primarily through the lens of training programs around Japan, the institutions that establish the parameters of such training, and the people who lead the programs. This research explores eleven programs identified as training Buddhist chaplains and three certifications that developed to professionally acknowledge their training. Although there is not sufficient space here to explore the full range of sectarian differences in approaches to care, a final part of the dissertation explores the Shingon tradition in more depth as an example of what Buddhist chaplains are actually doing after and outside of training, as well as what sectarian particularities exist.

This dissertation contends that in the case of Japan, Buddhists have developed training and practices for chaplains that maintain much of the image and understanding of the term “chaplaincy” while still attempting to appropriately adapt such roles to their specific cultural milieus. The research thus contributes to an expanded understanding of not only contemporary Japanese Buddhism, but also intercultural chaplaincy and spiritual care.


Contents

Part I
Chapter 1 Introduction - p. 2
Chapter 2 Japanese Buddhist Chaplaincy Awakens - p. 49

Part II
Chapter 3 Tohoku University Training Programs - p. 98
Chapter 4 Buddhist University Rinshōshukyōshi Programs - p. 138
Chapter 5 Further Chaplaincy Programs and Certifications - p. 196

Part III
Chapter 6 Three Mysteries of Care: Shingon Care Background - p. 229
Chapter 7 Contemporary Shingon Care - p. 256

Chapter 8 Conclusions - p. 305

Bibliography - p. 330

[First several pages of dissertation included in document]

It  is  not  a  surprising  situation  to  see  that,  some  of  the  business  owners or  senior  executives  of  the  institutions,  for  not  taking  into  account  the future  of  their  business  or  institutions,  by  failing  to  look  at  the catastrophic  risk  factors  that  may  result  in  their  businesses  or institutions  to  fail  in  fulfilling  their  obligations  to  the  community.  That is  why,  in  this  study  as  an  exploratory  research,  the  study  managed  to explore  the  importance  and  benefits  of  both  business  continuity  and  IT contingency  plans  of  having  them  in  place.  As  well  as,  how  these plans  can  be  established  and  implemented  smoothly.  Although,  in  this study  have  been  found  that  all  these  plans  has  major  drawback  of  both being a  very complex processes  and very costly during establishment. In  this  study,  it  has  been  found  that  business  continuity  and  IT contingency  plans,  have  demonstrated  significant  impact  of  their importance  in  safeguarding  IT  business  infrastructure  as  well  as  other corporate  resources  such  as  human  resource,  data  and  information, finance  and  time.  Also  to  act  as  an  assurance  for  the  resume  of  the business  activities  and  operations  if  or  when  a  catastrophe  event happens. And  in  summary,  this  study  concluded  that  business  continuity  plan through  IT  contingency  planing  have  proved  its  importance  and positive  impact  for  many  business  which  decided  to  adopt.  But however,  there  still  some  small  and  medium  enterprises  (SME’s)  who cannot  implement  such  initiatives  as  this  may  result  in  losses  through maintenance  cost  or  during  the  period  of  establishment.  But,  the analysis  of  the  advantages  vs  disadvantages  shows  that  the  advantages outweigh  the  disadvantages.  And  this  indicates  that,  IT  Contingency Plan  plays  a  major  role  in  the  discipline  of  the  business  continuity management  within the  corporate.

Over the years, the Federal Response Plan (FRP) and the
National Response Plan (NRP) have reflected policy learning
and changes that result from disasters. Since its initial release
in 1992 the FRP was amended twice then replaced by the NRP
in 2004. In the past, revisions to these plans have occurred in
response to Hurricane Andrew and the September 11 terrorist
attacks. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the state of
U.S. emergency management has been widely questioned. This
article examines developments in NRP and its implementations
in response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 from collaboration
and partnership perspectives. Information was collected from
a variety of print and electronic sources for the study.

In accordance with the technological developments in today's world many companies implement their vital operations on their data centers and IT services.In connection with the fast development in technology and risimg complexity of business processes, the control of the systems and critical data that companies have, became more and more complicated. Therefore; it became an obligation for most companies to have a well-organized " Disaster Recovery Plan " .

a. Do the different methods of backing up your data have a dependency on the type of recovery site that you use? Justify your answer. (7 points) The data is very important for any company; either it is a bank or an educational institution. The organizations and enterprises rely on the availability of their important data all the time. The companies cannot afford to lose even a bit of data from their data centers. The companies try hard to keep its data secure from different attacks like a virus or malicious software. The companies spend a lot of money on the security the data stored containing information about their employees, staff, customers and other sensitive information related to the future plans. However, there are certain cases when the measures taken to secure the data are useless. There can be natural disaster like, tornado, flood or fire causing the whole data center to vanish as it never existed. If the company faces such disaster, it will ruin and face billions of dollars. That is why the companies prefer to make a backup of all the data stored in their data centers to avoid loss. The companies and organization use different methods and techniques to keep a full record of all the data in a different location that can be accessed if there is loss of data at the data center. Making a backup of the database by the enterprises and organizations, mainly depend on the storage devices and the methodologies being used. There is no limitation of the data being stored at the data centers in the organizations. As the company grows and its business moves on, the amount of data also exceeds with the increasing number of transactions being done every day. However, the size of data becomes larger or smaller; the data needs to be backed up for the hard times. If the company holds terabytes of data and it relies on taking the backup on a daily basis, then it will be facing many challenges in order to do so daily. There are different types of backing up data, like normal, differential, incremental and daily. If the company needs to take a normal backup of data then it will need to have huge amounts of storage devices. The main issue in this normal backup is that, it backs up all the data either it is changed or not. It is like making an exact copy of data every day it will occupy hundreds of terabytes for making a backup on a daily basis. The other issue in making the daily normal backup is that, it will take a lot of time while doing so daily. Mostly, tape drives are used for backing up huge amounts of data. The speed of tape drives for storing data is faster than the

El presente informe corresponde a una evaluación de las condiciones físicas, sectoriales y territoriales en Colombia de los efectos e impactos y lecciones aprendidas del fenómeno desde octubre de 2014 a junio de 2016. Pues se busca, por una parte, evaluar los efectos e impactos del Fenómeno El Niño 2014-2016, y en su etapa previa 2014, tomando como referencia el fenómeno de 1997-1998, catalogado como uno de los más intensos del siglo XX, para poner en contexto las anomalías climáticas del presente fenómeno y sus impactos socioeconómicos y ambientales, así como la estructura política y administrativa del país para atender estos eventos en dos periodos distintos. Por otra parte, aumentar la capacidad de decisión y la planificación de los diferentes sectores socioeconómicos y regiones del país frente a fenómenos de variabilidad climática que eventualmente se presentarán en el futuro dado su carácter cíclico no regular en el sistema climático global

In 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans. The (near-) complete evacuation of the city led to the nation-wide dislocation of vulnerable citizens. Today, its reconstruction and recovery seems to be 'uneven'. The author views urban disaster recovery as an interaction of particular spatial, institutional, and social aspects. Uneven recovery is conceptualized as disconnect between planning for urban disaster recovery, impacted populations, and the places in the city they inhabit. As process, it encompasses heterogeneous cases of 'strong' or 'weak' recovery within the city. Based on a socio-spatial approach, an integrated multidimensional theoretical and methodological framework is formulated for empirical case study research in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. Quantitative and qualitative mixed methods served to collect empirical data in 2007 and 2009. The author's intention is to better understand planning for urban disaster recovery in an American city and formulate resulting planning recommendations. This dissertation contributes to future sustainable and just recovery paradigms in the context of recurring urban disaster events.

Technology experts and stakeholders say they expect they will ‘live mostly in the cloud’ in 2020 and not on the desktop, working mostly through cyberspace-based applications accessed through networked devices. This will substantially advance mobile connectivity through smartphones and other internet appliances. Many say there will be a cloud-desktop hybrid. Still, cloud computing has many difficult hurdles to overcome, including concerns tied to the availability of broadband spectrum, the ability of diverse systems to work together, security, privacy, and quality of service.

Data center atau pusat data adalah fasilitas penyimpanan sekaligus pemerosesan banyak data, baik data pribadi maupun data umum. Dalam pelayanan infrastruktur data center, terdapat keamanan data, infrastruktur IP, media penyimpanan. Pelayanan tersebut diberikan demi mempermudah dan menjamin kelancaran dalam berbisnis. Data center yang ideal bagi perusahaan sudah seharusnya memiliki disasater recovery center (DRC) sebagai back-up dari data center dengan kriteria perancangan DRC yang sesuai unjuk kerja yang telah ditentukan oleh kebutuhan perusahaan. Untuk dapat merancang suatu data center (DC) dan disaster recovery center (DRC) yang ideal sesuai kebutuhan perusahaan, yang nantinya dapat dijadikan acuan dalam pembangunan suatu data center yang ideal di perusahaan. dilakukan perencanaan dan perancangan jaringan pada data center dan disaster recovery center yang berdasarkan kerangka acuan kerja.
Perencanaan suatu pemulihan adanya bencana teknologi informasi (IT Disaster Recovery Planning), adapun bencana yang dimaksud seperti terjadi kebakaran, bencana alam, perang. sehingga dapat menyebabkan kerusakan pada infrastruktur teknologi informasi dalam hal ini adalah media penyimpanan data (data storage). Perusahaan dapat menyalin atau backup data kedalam DRC dengan diupdate atau dimutahkirkan secara berkala sehingga jika suatu kondisi terjadi bencana yang menyebabkan tidak berfungsinya fasilitas dan infrasturktur teknologi informasi dalam hal ini media penyimpanan data ( data storage ), maka perusahan dapat melanjutkan pengolahan data dengan menggunakan data yang disimpan dalam DRC, adapun dalam DRC tetap menjamin terhadap keamanan dan kerahasian data perusahaan.

Kata Kunci : data center, disaster recovery center, DC, DRC, IP, Perencanaan, pemulihan , bencana, Storage.

Following seven previous successful editions of this leading conference series on risk and resilience, held in different regions of the globe, this 8th edition of the International Conference on Building Resilience took place for the first time in Portugal, being organized by the University of Lisbon, in collaboration with the Universities of Coimbra and Huddersfield, and held in the premises of the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL), between 14 and 16 November 2018.
We feel honoured for having this opportunity of organizing a conference that becomes a reference on the annual calendar of those interested in disaster-related sciences. By bridging the gap between designers, disaster managers, and humanitarian and development practitioners, the ICBR has been promoting a vast interdisciplinary network aimed at strengthening and disseminating a culture of risk and resilience.
We have embraced in 2018 the theme “Risk and Resilience in Practice: Vulnerabilities, Displaced People, Local Communities and Heritages” for the 8th ICBR with the goal of addressing some of the most challenging and pressing issues that concern academia, public administrations, the private sector, civil society and, last but not least, local populations, whom our individual and shared efforts are meant to impact in a positive way. In light of the more than 600 quality submissions (papers and posters) that were received from more than 50 countries, this choice seems to have been particularly inspiring. Indeed, the Conference brought together excellent pieces of research and amazing projects focusing on disaster risk reduction, disaster preparedness, post-disaster rebuilding and recovery, humanitarian architecture, gender issues and resilience in general. Complementing the significant set of conference publication outputs (five books and four special issues) this book reunites the half of the participants' papers presented to the conference after reviewed by the scientific committee.

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is well established as a key plank in an organisation's risk management process. But how effective is BCP when disaster strikes? This paper examines the experiences of organisations following the 2010-2011 Canterbury, New Zealand earthquakes. The study finds that BCP was helpful for all organisations interviewed but more attention is needed on the management of societal and personal impacts; development of employee resilience, identification of effective crisis leaders; right-sizing plans and planning to seize opportunities post-disaster.

More than the great casualty incidence, Typhoon “Yolanda” rendered nearly 200 thousand families totally homeless and brought damage to both public and private resources and assets resulting to infrastructure gridlocks and economic setbacks.  The main objective of Leyte’s Rehabilitation and Recovery Plan is to bring back the economic and social conditions of the people, at least, at pre-typhoon level and a higher level of disaster resiliency. The sectors include outputs on infrastructure and utilities, housing, health facilities, services, livelihood assistance in agriculture and marginal sectors, and employment opportunities, and support to social welfare services and the environmental, gender and development and the overall poverty alleviation cross cutting themes.  For Eastern Visayas State University, it needs at least $18 million to finance mostly the construction of temporary shelter/classrooms, infrastructure restoration/repairs in all campuses, structural retrofitting, equipment procurement and debris/waste materials management.  The proposed facilities will entail the integration of disaster-resilient character, with a focus on the functionality, aesthetics, environment-friendly and sustainability of designs.