ABSTRACT
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
The success of post-disaster reconstruction depends to a large extent on the complex relationships between the multiple actors involved. These actors include the affected people, community-based organizations, local and central government, NGOs and international agencies and, of course, designers (who may be architects or engineers) and builders. The challenge is to “design” these relationships in the best interest of the recovery effort. To achieve the hoped-for success, two aspects are particularly crucial: (i) carrying out what can best be called systematic organizational design and (ii) choosing an appropriate procurement strategy – at the levels of both the reconstruction program as a whole and the individual projects that make it up.
