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The final report represents a shared overview of the main achievements of the past year and the key challenges that lie ahead. In this collaboration, and through the setting of national priorities, the ongoing partnership between the international community and the people of the Maldives will continue to thrive.
The report documents the efforts taken by the Thai Government, public, private sector and civil society in responding to the disaster. Unlike the other affected countries, Thailand did not formally appeal for international support, and the Government led
The overall objective of the regional programme (OSRO/GLO/502/FIN) of which the Maldives is a component is to help restore the livelihoods of the people in the tsunami-affected areas and to contribute to their improved and more secure futures through forest rehabilitation and reforestation.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
This briefing paper provides a synthesis of and introduction to key lessons from evaluations of relief and recovery/humanitarian response to flooding in the last 20 years from Africa, Asia and the Americas. The paper is intended for people working in
ProVention Consortium
Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP)
Three years into the reconstruction effort, with vast amounts of aid having been spent, this reports aims to shed some light on questions regarding the ability of the early relief and reconstruction effort to alleviate poverty in Aceh. This report aims to offer the provincial government in Aceh and the reconstruction agency (BRR) a clearer picture of poverty in the post-conflict and tsunami environment in order to allow them to better design policies and programs to alleviate poverty in the province.
The purpose of this brochure is to elicit partner’s feedback and support to the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), a new initiative of the World Bank in support of implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) in low and
World Bank, the
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
Report on the international workshop, October 2005, Ahmedabad, India
Microfinance has helped victims of disasters accelerate their recovery and diversify their livelihoods with more productive sources of income. Microfinance as an emergency loan has also
More than 220,000 people dead in 12 countries and 1.6 million people displaced. Numbers alone cannot provide a true sense of the devastation wrought by the December 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Nor can numbers tell us what it will take for the region to recover. In the weeks that followed the tsunami, Grameen Foundation USA took immediate action by providing $25,000 to ASA, our long-time partner in Tamil Nadu, India, to support its innovative approach to participating in the immediate relief effort. The Jameel Group committed all of the funds required to undertake a comprehensive, multi-country survey to determine how microfinance could be best used in the post-tsunami recovery effort. This report synthesizes the lessons learned from the survey teams.
This brief paper focuses only on current microinsurance products designed to protect poor microentrepreneurs in the event of massive disasters by covering damage to assets used for income generation such as livestock and property and disruption to their
As part of the rehabilitation strategy for India tsunami response in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, SEEDS initiated few programme aiming towards disaster mitigation and preparedness amongst the community members of the islands. The aim is to spread
Sustainable Environmental and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS)
