Between 2007 and 2010, the health cluster also supported the MOH to develop a health sector recovery strategy and plan aimed at rebuilding (back better) the health system of the conflict affected districts of northern Uganda.
Resisting the initial response to rebuild back to "normal," Greensburg decided instead to build back better: in an ethical and economic manner regarding sustainability.
Past experiences have shown that it not only restores schooling and its related benefits to affected people, it also helps countries transform and rebuild or 'build back better' the institutions and systems destroyed during the emergency.
A mother remembers the quake - one year on PADANG, 30 September, 2010 - For Resmanita, the 2009 earthquake was a bad memory but UNICEF and the government has helped to rebuild her clinic back better.
In the education sector, UNICEF's main priorities are to get children into school and to "build back better" – rebuilding educational institutions and systems with the goal of improving upon them.
"It's not so much rebuilding Liberia as building back better, and for that we need to make sure there is absolutely no flagging of resources".
In addition to rebuilding, UNICEF has extensive plans to build back better by boosting the quality and extent of education, health care, hygiene awareness, clean water and sanitation, and protection of children.
As thousands of people continue to rebuild their homes and lives after Sandy, "building back better" must become more than a slogan.
Our goal is not only to rebuild what has been destroyed, but to 'build back better' – better schools, better health facilities, and better opportunities for children.
Not only was the local population of the affected countries involved in co-creating the rebuilding, they coined the phrase "Build Back Better!" The reconstruction effort hewed to that mantra and made the villages safer from future disasters, created better schools and achieved many other objectives that gave the local population great pride in their new surroundings [45].
