This report assesses damages and needs resulting from the earthquake that struck Gujarat, India January 26, 2001. It provides a preliminary assessment of damages, identifies needs for reconstruction and recovery, and outlines a recovery strategy.
This report sets out to promote transition recovery as a tool for sustainable development by defining the UNDP concept of transition from relief to recovery as pioneered in Gujarat.
This research project investigated the issues of sheltering after a disaster and published a series of practical guidelines for assisting groups that included UN agencies, governments and NGO’s in 1982.
