The concept of resilience includes the ability to recover quickly after disasters and is essential to minimizing the impact of disasters on affected people. A successful recovery effort depends on countries having mechanisms in place before disasters occur, to ensure that the recovery process is conceived, effectively initiated and managed in a timely manner. This session looked at two aspects of infrastructure recovery and discussed approaches to damage and loss assessment, identification and prioritization of recovery activities, financing and implementation of projects in a dynamic environment with various competing priorities.