Recovery and Reconstruction

By Elaine O. Ratunil

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb. 23 (PIA) -- The city government is set to build and will manage the construction of 700 houses in the Calaanan Relocation site for families who lost their houses in Cagayan de Oro City.

“This is a different set of houses aside from the 1,500 houses started by the Habitat for Humanity, and the 300 houses promised by the Filipino-Chinese Community,” Mayor Vicente Y. Emano clarified.

UN-HABITAT, in collaboration with NDMA, has arranged a two-day conference on the 22nd and 23rd February, 2012 to focus both national and international attention on the post-disaster recovery process, specifically housing reconstruction and rehabilitation, based on the lessons learnt from the natural calamities that have affected the country since 2005.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is aiming to establish a sustainable local market and industry for clean cooking solutions in Haiti, a country whose high demand for charcoal has contributed to widespread deforestation.

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Abidjan, le 22 février 2012... Le Représentant spécial du Secrétaire général des Nations Unies pour la Côte d’Ivoire, Bert Koenders, s’est entretenu mercredi 22 février 2012, avec une délégation de l’Organisation Internationale pour les Migrations (OIM), conduite par sa Représentante Régionale pour l’Afrique de l’ouest et du Centre, Caramela Godeau.

Beneficiará a más de un millón 450 mil habitantes de San Luis Potosí y Guanajuato.
Se inicia la construcción del acueducto que abastecerá a San Luis Potosí

La infraestructura hidráulica que construye la Comisión Nacional del Agua (Conagua) es parte de la estrategia integral de largo plazo del Gobierno Federal para aprovechar el recurso hídrico de fuentes superficiales, recuperar y conservar los acuíferos y reducir los efectos de la sequía en la población, informó José Luis Luege Tamargo, Director General de la dependencia.

One hundred and twenty Japanese engineers arrived in South Sudan this week to join the United Nations peacekeeping mission there in helping the young country build roads and bridges.

Infrastructural development is a top priority for South Sudan, which gained it’s independence from Sudan in July. Years of civil war left the country with nearly a paved road or bridge.

The Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force of engineers is the ninth team from the country to participate in UN peacekeeping operations.

Cottage honey and lulu processing factories in Kajo Keji, Central Equatoria, are thriving and helping to lift the quality of the lives of the residents. This was revealed by a monitoring and evaluation team led by the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare which visited one of the projects to assess its performance.